p. 304 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 38. (10/9/1879)

Earlier text: The United States in Prophecy

Religious News and Notes.

By Editor

—Rev. Samuel S. Haris, D. D., has been consecrated Episcopal Bishop of Michigan.

—A Philadelphia lady owns a MS. copy of Wesley's Hymns in the handwriting of their author.

—The Synod of the Pacific has 121 churches and 6,825 members, with 10,280 children in the Sunday-schools.

—A church bell, purchased for Persia by California Presbyterian Sunday-school funds left the Troy (N. Y.) foundry Oct. 4.

—A man 108 years of age, who has been a member of a church for eighty years, was recently received into the Baptist church at New Haven.

—The Richmond Religious Herald says: "Here in the South are thousands of Baptist churches that promise their pastors but about $150 salary, and don't pay that."

—Mrs. Thomas, a lady of Philadelphia, aged 80, has built a church at Kane (Penn.), at a cost of $20,000, and presented it to the Presbyterian congregation at that place.

—The Department of the Interior has decided that women under the control of men by "Endowment House" marriages in Utah, cannot pre-empt lands in their own names.

—The Episcopal Missionary Jurisdiction of Colorado and Wyoming reports 53 parishes and mission stations, 16 clergy, and 1091 communicants. There were 259 baptisms, and 106 confirmations last year.

—The Prussian Court of Justice has rendered judgment in a suit against a person for printing a parody of the Apostle's Creed, for the complainants. In Prussia no one may offer insult to a religious faith.

It is understood that the Belgium Bishops have rescinded their resolutions on the subject of communal and normal schools, and that the Pope approved their decision. Whatever the feelings of the Pope may be, he seems to favor concessions.

—A Baptist minister was recently re-baptized, because he was baptized, twenty years ago, by a Methodist minister. And now appears an Episcopal minister in Canada who insisted on re-marrying a couple who had been married by a Methodist minister!

—Dr. Joseph P. Thompson, a well-known preacher and editor, died in Berlin, Sept. 18. He was one of the editors of the Independent thirteen years, and was a very active man, until, as that paper says, "disease of an overworked brain compelled him to seek retirement."

—The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday published a five column expose of the Mormon Endowment House giving the marriage ceremony, oaths against the Government, grips, signs and penalties. The supposition is that it was written by some one officiating in that institution in some capacity in years past.

—Nearly 3,000 pilgrims, many of them paupers and invalids, set out recently from Paris for Lourdes, and the total of pilgrims at that place for the season is said to be double what it was last year. Notre Dame de la Salette, which was reported to have fallen into disgrace, is soon to be crowned by the Archbishop of Paris.

—The Christian at Work says, "Too often, with Americans, it is more the man than the sermon that attracts,—more the name of the preacher than the theme of the sermon." And the churches are responsible for the wrong, for no church wants a good man for a minister—he must draw. The churches "star it" as well as the theatres.

—The Golden Rule says of Mr. Murry, its late editor, that the manner of life which he ever disliked, is not preaching, which he loved, but the so-called "work of the ministry." To which the Independent says, "Very well; but we do not see that that makes much difference. Paul did not like being stoned, but he stuck to his preaching nevertheless."

—The Philadelphia Lutheran Observer warmly commends the efforts now being made in some of the States to enforce the old Sunday laws, which have so long been regarded as a dead-letter. It says that in Baltimore the daily newspapers are not to be exempted from the operation of the law, and the Gazette has already agreed to abstain from all work on its Monday issue from 12 o'clock on Saturday night to 12 o'clock on Sunday night. The past effort in Connecticut by Rev. Dr. Bacon and others to stop the Sunday excursions of the Sound steamers has thus far proved a complete failure, greatly to the regret of the Observer and the religious press generally.

—According to the Monmouth (Oregon) Christian Messenger, the Methodist Episcopal Conference, lately convened in Portland, passed the following extraordinary resolution: "Reso'ved, That we hereby request Rev. Bishop Haven to appoint Rev. J. L. Powell to the superintendency of Public Instruction for the State of Oregon." Mr. Powell having been previously elected to that office, the Messenger inquires, very pertinently, what may be the force and significance of such appointment? "Is the Superintendency of Public Instruction a charge of the Methodist Conference? Is the Conference a political machine? Supposing Rev. L. J. Powell should embezzle, would he be responsible to Rev. Bishop Haven? Would it be a kind of Purcell matter? Or would the whole appointment be a kind of farcical, presumptuous display of unauthorized authority?"

Secular News

-The Oakland Clinton Mills were burned Oct. 4.

-A large strike commenced in St. Louis, Sept. 29.

-Two inches of snow fell near Quebec in September.

-Serious trouble is apprehended in Ireland because of the anti-rent agitations.

-Senator Zachariah Chandler has been made an LL. D. by Hillsdale (Mich.) College.

-From January 1st to June 1st this year, the receipts of gold from Europe amounted to $27,000,000.

-At a meeting of the council of the Massachusetts Medical Society it was resolved to admit women to membership.

-It is estimated that Dr. H. J. Glenn has raised this year 1,200,000 sacks of grain on his ranch in Colusa county.

-It is thought an understanding between Greece and Turkey is impossible. Warlike preparations are progressing on both sides.

-A deficiency of small coin in the U. S. Treasury is to be supplied by recoining the foreign gold received at the N. Y. assay office.

-Eastern Siberia is menaced with famine. Grain is dearer than ever before, and the poor are suffering severely. The harvest was very bad.

-The Sons of Temperance in San Francisco, adopted resolutions of respect to Gen. Grant, for his refusal to drink wine at a reception.

-The rinderpest is raging in Russian Poland with great virulence, and precautions have been taken to prevent its introduction into Germany.

-Judge Tourgee, after residing fourteen years in North Carolina, has returned North. He says there is more bitterness now to Northern people than existed in 1865.

-Daniel Drew, once a prominent speculator and stock-broker, recently died at the age of 82. He amassed a fortune of $8,000,000, but lost it as he gained it, and died poor.

-Affairs in Afghanistan are in a dubious state. The rulers profess friendship for the English, but are suspected of sympathy with the rebellion. Peace is not restored.

-The British ship Langdale, which sailed from San Francisco in June, was wrecked near Wexford. Capt. Jenkinson, his wife, three children, and four of the crew, were lost.

-A large exodus of Chinese embarked on the City of Tokio Oct. 4. It is stated that the Tokio is freighted with the most valuable cargo ever shipped from San Francisco to the Orient.

-The loss caused by the Deadwood, D. T. fire is estimated over $3,000,000. All that was saved of the county records, books, etc., was one set of books from the Treasurers office.

-There have been discovered in the shop of a Parisian bookseller forty-five volumes in MS., written in utterly unknown characters, and the French savants can make nothing of them.

-A dispatch from Geneva says the district of La Roche, in the Canton of Fribourg, was visited by a waterspout on Friday, Sept. 26. Twelve bridges were destroyed, and houses, fields, and vineyards flooded.

-A tax collector in S. F., being unable to collect of a Chinaman, levied on one of the wooden gods and had it placed on a wagon. The Chinaman soon made good the delinquency and recovered the idol.

-Assistant Attorney-General for the Post-office Department decides that letters addressed to lottery companies or to agents for such companies are unmailable per se, and Postmasters should refuse to register letters when so addressed.

-A Rome correspondent telegraphs that Sicily and Southern Italy have been visited by a great storm, on Sunday, Sept. 28, which carried away a railway bridge between Ciro and Crucoli, hurling a passenger train into the torrent. The engineer was killed and all the passengers more or less injured.

-On the morning of Oct. 2, a sharp shock of earthquake was felt at San Francisco. Although very brief in duration, the shock was one of the severest experienced during the past five years. It appeared to travel from west to east, and was felt nearly all over the city, and at various points in Oakland.

-Governor St. John, of Kansas, gives a very flattering account of the 6,000 colored refugees who have taken up their homes in that State. They have gone to work, so that not more than seventy-five of the whole number are receiving aid. To prevent others leaving the South, the whites are resorting to such rigorous and unjust measures as will be sure to drive them northward.

-Major Thornburg, with a body of soldiers in Colorado, fell into an ambuscade of Ute Indians and was killed, with fifteen others, and forty wounded. Intelligence being sent to Gen. Crook at Omaha, he ordered all available help by rail to Rawlins, whence it is hoped the remainder of Thornburg's men may be reached before they are destroyed. The Utes are formidable warriors, inhabiting a rough, mountainous country, heavily timbered. As usual, it is considered that the ill conduct of Agents, and the neglect of duty by last Congress, has brought this calamity, which will probably be more serious before it ends.

Good Health.

Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin.

The Tribune correspondent encountered a personal friend of the senator, a few evenings since, who opened a conversation concerning him with the remark: "Matt Carpenter is sick, and likely to die. He is a very sick man indeed." The scribe ventured an inquiry into the nature of Mr. Carpenter's ailment, and received this as an answer:—

"I tell you that no man can smoke twenty Havana cigars a day, and keep up the practice, without encountering certain death. It is a hazardous thing to do, and Matt Carpenter is doing it. You observe the consequences. Matt is a slave to tobacco, and it is killing him slowly but surely. He has wasted so that his limbs have become emaciated to the semblance of pipe-stems. They call it rheumatism. Bah! it is tobacco, and nothing else, that has wasted him away to this extent, and will continue the work of destruction until death steps in and claims another victim. Matt Carpenter's ailment can be traced directly to the inordinate use of tobacco. I know this because I have read all of the best authorities upon the subject, and am therefore thoroughly conversant with the deleterious effects of the weed, at least theoretically. Tobacco possesses an insidious and destructive power second only to that of opium. When it strikes a victim it is sure death. Matt Carpenter, with all his great brain, does not know this, for the simple reason that he has not taken the pains to inform himself. He is slowly wasting away, and, not knowing the cause, keeps on smoking. He is killing himself with tobacco, and his physicians, I fear, keep him in ignorance of the real cause of his physical disability. The condition of Matt Carpenter, as the result of his fondness for tobacco, is a source of the most sincere regret to me, and that is the excuse I have to offer for speaking to you on the subject."—Chicago Tribune.

Schuyler Colfax came near to killing himself the same way, but fortunately saw his danger and had manhood enough to break away from his slavery.

Annual Meeting of the California Tract and Missionary Society.

The ninth annual meeting of the Society was held at Healdsburg, Cal.; first session Sept. 18, 1879, the Vice President, M. C. Israel, presiding. The report of the last meeting was read and approved. The Vice President appointed the following committees:—

On Nominations, James Creamer, John Custer, E. Moore. On Resolutions, W. M. Healey, J. E. White, W. C. Grainger.

The second session convened Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 10 A. M. The report of progress for the past year was called for, and read as follows:—

The present membership of the Society is 440; an increase of thirty during the year. The number of reports, 858; number of families visited, 1547; ships visited, 250; letters written, 2589; pages of tracts given away, 928,814; pages tracts, pamphlets and books loaned, 143,172; total number loaned and given away, 1,071,986; number of libraries furnished, 1487. Number of new subscribers obtained for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, 221; for other periodicals, 227; number of SIGNS taken in clubs, 655; SIGNS distributed, 16,270; other periodicals distributed, 22,307; Annuals distributed, 1,617. Number of subscribers for periodicals obtained on the camp-ground: SIGNS, 29; Good Health 44; Review, 40; Monthly Instructor, 7; Weekly Instructor, 6; Stimme der Wahrheit, 5; College Record, 236. Total, 367.

Am't rec'd for new members $30. “ “ by donations, 744.27 “ “ from book sales, 198.56 “ “ for widows and orphans, 19.75 “ “ for periodicals, 393.40—1385.98

In connection with this was the reading of the treasurer's report as follows:—

Cash on deposit, Aug. 30, 1878, $781.70 Received from districts on acct., 1856.38 “ for General Fund, $2992.79 Paid Signs Office on acct., 2256.48 “ Review “ “ 276.50 On deposit Sept. 17, 1879, 459.81—$2992.79

The following statement shows the financial standing of the society to date:—

Due from districts on acct., $987.88 Books donated to ship fund by Gen. T. & M. Society, 50.00 On deposit 459.81—1499.69

Eld. Haskell made some remarks with reference to the decrease in T. and M. contributions, attributing it to the loss sustained by the Society in the removal of Eld. Loughborough.

The report of the Nominating Committe was presented, and the following named persons duly elected for the ensuing year:—

For President, Eld. S. N. Haskell; Vice President, M. C. Israel; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. L. D. A. Carruth; assistant Secretary, Miss Barbara C. Stickney.

For Director; District No. 1, T. M. Chapman; No. 2, G. Hutchings; No. 3, John Mavy; No. 4, John Judson; No. 5, Wm. Saunders; No. 6, D. S. Hemstreet; No. 7, W. J. Bostwick; No. 8, M. C. Israel.

The following resolutions were adopted:—

Resolved, That the Society immediately order 15,000 Annuals.

Resolved, That the action, at the quarterly meeting held Oct. 27, 1877, which provided for paying the traveling expenses of the directors be rescinded, and that the matter be left discretionary with the Board of Directors.

Before the close of the meeting an opportunity was given for those who desired to become members of the General T. and M. Society; as the result twenty-seven names were enrolled as life members.

An opportunity was also offered to those who wished to contribute jewelry etc, for the ship work; and quite a number of valuable articles were given.

On motion the meeting adjourned. M. C. ISRAEL, Vice President, L. D. A. CARRUTH, Secretary.

Sabbath-School Re-Union.

A VERY pleasant meeting of the Sabbath-school of Oakland was held on Wednesday evening, Oct. 1. The programme contained a large variety of exercises; but it was so well arranged that all was concluded by 9:20. The house was filled; middle seats were reserved for the school, which filed in, in excellent order, according to the programme:—

PROCESSIONAL—Marching On................SCHOOL.
ANTHEM—Exalt Him..........................CHOIR.
PRAYER...................ELD. J. H. WAGGONER, PASTOR.
SONG—Whiter than Snow.....................SCHOOL.

With an instrumental accompaniment. 5. ADDRESS..........................ELD. S. N. HASKELL. President of National S. S. Association.

This address was well received, as it deserved. An interesting incident was related of little S. S. children holding a prayer meeting, and facts and instruction all crowded into ten minutes.

SONG—Jesus Loves the Little Ones..........CHILDREN.
OPENING CLASS CONTRIBUTION BOXES.

This, of course, was interesting to the school. The contributions for the preceding quarter, before the class boxes were used, amounted to $11.46. The boxes were found to contain $64.08. The givers do not feel badly over this.

8. SONG—Sweet By and By......................SCHOOL. With Instrumental Accompaniment. 9. ADDRESS......................ELD. J. H. WAGGONER. The request for the publication of this address was so well sustained, that we insert it in full.

Among the sweetest names to mortals given, Are always counted—mother, home, and Heaven. Mother! let all give honor to that name, And guard your guardians from the fear of shame. For truly 'tis the mother makes the home On earth,—as Jesus makes the one to come; And a dear mother's counsel, wisely given, May guide your steps to find the home in Heaven. Duty, for all, is here, as joy is there, And by the cross alone the crown you'll wear. As home is dearest to the weary feet, So none but workers feel that rest is sweet.

Let every action have its spring in love, By which alone we taste the joys above. For as on earth, in Heaven, the richest part Is the sweet service of a loving heart. Who would expect e'en earthly joys to prove In home without a mother—without love? And who could think that Heaven itself were dear, Were it the home of hatred, and of fear?- Then learn to love even as you learn to read;— So shall your lessons to the Saviour lead.

Let teachers strive with pupils to excel; Your motto be—"Not how much, but how well." And as God works by well-appointed means, To lead our hearts and steps to brighter scenes, By strict obedience to each sacred rule, You'll find all blessings in your Sabbath-school.

SONG—Cross and Crown.....................CHOIR.
SEC'YS QUARTERLY REPORT......MRS. L. D. CARRUTH.

The following synopsis will give an idea of this report: There are 16 classes. In a scale of 5, the scholarship for the quarter was 4 3-10; deportment, 4 1-16; average membership, 120; average attendance, 106; number of absences, 142. Number at the commencement of the quarter, 107; number added, 49; number left, 19; increase, 30; present number, 137.

12. SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT...............J. E. WHITE Verbal report—no minutes.

SONG—We Will Cling to Jesus............SCHOOL.
ELECTION OF SABBATH SCHOOL OFFICERS.

The nomination having been made the preceding Sabbath, the election occupied but a few minutes.

SONG—Pearly Portals......................CHOIR.
REMARKS BY PRES. S. S. V. M. S........W. N. GLENN.

No minutes. This is to the School what the Vigilant Missionary Society is to the Tract and Missionary Society. It is proving efficient in recruiting.

17. SEC'YS REPORT OF S. S. V. M. S.....MRS. L. M. HALL. The society was organized Aug. 16, 1879; there are now 57 members; there have been a number of scholars added to the school by their efforts, and a goodly number of Instructors have been distributed. Working with good courage.

SONG—Work..............................CHOIR.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF S. S. V. M. SOCIETY.
CLOSING SONG—Good Night..................CHOIR.
BENEDICTION....................ELD. S. N. HASKELL.

The school singing was spirited and prompt, as it always is in this school. The instrumental accompaniment to the two pieces was by the Pacific Press Cornet Band. This band has been organized but a short time, and this was its first public effort, and the performance was highly creditable. The choir singing was under the direction of Mr. D. S. Hakes, who is well known to many of our readers through his music in the "Song Anchor." He was assisted by several of his lady pupils. The closing piece, Good Night, was rendered in a manner which could hardly be excelled.

Excellent order was maintained; the little folks behaved themselves unusually well. Altogether it was an enjoyable and profitable season, calculated to give the visitors an excellent opinion of our school. SECRETARY.

S. N. HASKELL

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

SABBATH and first-day, Oct. 11 and 12, I will be in Pacheco, Contra Costa Co. Expect to see friends from Lafayette there.

S. N. HASKELL

Business Department.

By Editor

$2.00 EACH. Mrs Mary McCully 6-33, J A Williams 7-35, Hannah Harrington 6-37, B M Osgood 7-1, S Rrown 6-38, Emma Phillips 6-38, J M Veach 6-38.

$1.50 EACH. Thomas Hawson 7-1, Catherine Barthwick 6-33, James H Carruth 6-38, James A Chase 6-38, G W Sum 6-33, H S Foster 6-38, Sanford Rogers 6-37, N E Larson 6-37, A G Carruth 6-38.

MISCELLANEOUS. Mrs J F Obrock 50c 6-7, Phebe Lyon 50c 6-5, Mrs H T H Sanborn (3 copies) 4.50 6-38, C W Ford $1.00 4-29, A L Colwell 1.00 6-21, Mrs C F Whaley 50c 6-1, Bishop H M Brown 1.00 6-38, Mrs Ellen Gragg 1.20 6-38, Mrs P Latham 1.20 6-38, Robert McCormick 1.20 6-38, Geo A King 1.00 5-37. A O Grigsby 50c 6-1, Eld John Fulton 1.20 5-37, Mrs M L Criner (10 copies) 6.00 6-14, J W Heath 1.20 6-5, E G Vaughan 65c 6-13, Robert Moran 75c 6-38, John Toberman 50c 6-4, Mrs Maria Blackburn 50c 6-4, M L Blackburn 50c 6-4.

CAL PUBLISHING FUND. Harris Bartlett $10.00, Mrs S P Chambers 20.00.

CAL CONFERENCE. Harris Bartlett $7.20, Eld J H Waggoner 7.20, Eld M C Israel 11.70.

RECEIVED ON ACCOUNT. Cal T and M Society $135.00, Kansas T and M Society 100.00, New England T and M Society 175.00.

DONATION TO SIGNS. A sister in Colorado $5.00.

OAKLAND CHURCH. Mrs Wetmore 50c, E E Wetmore 50c, C Wetmore 50c, A E Stickles 1.00, S V Ecent 5.06.

BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND TRACTS.

Issued by the S. D. A. Publishing Association and for Sale at this Office.

The Sanctuary and the 2300 days of Daniel 8: 14. By Elder U. Smith. This question has developed the people known as the Seventh-day Adventists, and is the pivotal doctrine upon which their applications of prophecy largely depend. 352 pp. $1.00.

Thoughts on Daniel, critical and practical. By Elder U. Smith. An exposition of the book of Daniel, verse by verse. 384 pp. 1.00.

Thoughts on Revelation. By Elder U. Smith. With notes or remarks on every verse in the book of Revelation. 352 pp. 1.00.

Life of Wm. Miller, with portrait. Interesting sketches of the life and public labors of this pioneer in the Advent movement in this country. 416 pp. 1.00.

The Biblical Institute. A synopsis of the lectures given at the Institute, held at Oakland, Cal., April 1877, covering the main points of our faith. 352 pp. 1.00.

The Nature and Destiny of Man. By Elder U. Smith. This work treats on the condition of man in death, and his final destiny. 356 pp. 1.00.

The Spirit of Prophecy; or the great controversy between Christ and his angels and Satan and his angels, in four volumes. By Mrs. E. G. White. These volumes cover the time from the fall of Satan to the destruction of sin and sinners at the close of the one thousand years of Rev. 20. Each 400 pp. Vol. I. Old Testament to Christ. Vol. II. Life and Ministry of Christ. Vol. III. The Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ, with the Lives of His Apostles. Vol. IV. (In preparation). Each 1.00.

History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, for the period of 6000 years. By Elder J. N. Andrews. This is a work of unusual interest, prepared with great care, and is full of historical and Scriptural facts. 528 pp. $1.00.

Life of Elder Joseph Bates, with portrait. 352 pp. 1.00.

The Constitutional Amendment. A Discussion between Elder W. H. Littlejohn and the editor of the Christian Statesman, on the Sabbath. 1.00.

The Bible from Heaven. By Elder D. M. Canright. An argument to show that the Bible is not the work of men, but is of God. 300 pp. 80 cts. Revised edition (in preparation). 1.00.

Spiritual Songs. A choice collection of Hymns and Tunes. 416 pp. 1.00.

The United States in the Light of Prophecy. An exposition of Rev. 13:11-17. By Elder U. Smith. Applying to our own land and time, this prophecy possesses surpassing interest for every American reader. 200 pp. 40 cts. Paper covers, 20 cts.

Thoughts on Baptism. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. A careful examination of the subject of Christian Baptism in the light of history and the Bible. It presents strong arguments against the notion of Trine Immersion. 186 pp. Bound in flexible cloth, 35 cts. Paper covers, 25 cts.

Song Anchor. For Sabbath-schools and praise service. By J. E. White. A new book, with excellent new words and music. 160 pp. 35 cts. Per hundred, $30.00.

The Atonement. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. An examination of a remedial system in the light of Nature and Revelation. 168 pp. 20 cts.

The Ministration of Angels, and the origin, and destiny of Satan. By Elder D. M. Canright. 144 pp. 20 cts.

The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, By Elder J. H. Waggoner. A thorough exposure of Spiritualism; application of the Scriptures, and copious extracts from a library of Spiritualist publications. 184 pp. 20 cts.

Our Faith and Hope. Sermons on the coming and kingdom of Christ. By Elder James White. 182 pp. 20 cts.

The Spirit of God, its gifts and manifestations to the end of the Christian age. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. 144 pp. 15 cts.

The Three Messages of Revelation 14:6-12. Particularly the third angel's message and the twohorned beast. By J. N. Andrews. 144 pp. 15 cts.

The Two Laws, as set forth in both Testaments. By Elder D. M. Canright. 104 pp. 15 cts.

Matthew Twenty-Four. A clear and forcible exposition of our Lord's discourse upon the Mount of Olives. By Elder James White. 64 pp. 10 cts.

The Sunday Seventh-Day Examined. A refutation of the teachings of Mede, Jennings, Akers, and Fuller. By Elder J. N. Andrews. 88 pp. 10 cts.

The Seven Trumpets. An exposition of the subject, as set forth in the eighth and ninth chapters of the Revelation. 96 pp. 10 cts.

Refutation of the Age to Come. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. A most decisive refutation of the view that men may find pardon after the Saviour has closed his work in the Sanctuary above. 168 pp. 20 cts.

The Morality of the Sabbath. By Elder D. M. Canright. A complete refutation of a common objection against the Sabbath. 96 pp. 15 cts.

The Resurrection of the Unjust. A vindication of the doctrine. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. 100 pp. 15 cts.

A Word for the Sabbath, or false theories exposed. (POEM.) By Eld. U. Smith. 60 pp. 15 cts.

Vindication of the True Sabbath. By J. W. Morton, formerly missionary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, to Hayti. 68 pp. 10 cts.

Sermon on the Two Covenants. By Elder J. N. Andrews. An able argument on an important subject. 48 pp. 10 cts.

The Truth Found. The nature and obligation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. 64 pp. 10 cts.

Christ and the Sabbath; or, Christ in the Old Testament and the Sabbath in the New. By Elder James White. 56 pp. 10 cts.

Redeemer and Redeemed. By Elder James White. This work sets forth the plan of Redemption in its three stages. 40 pp. 10 cts.

Systematic Benevolence. Setting forth the Bible plan of giving for the support of the ministry. 64 pp. 10 cts.

Notice.

By Editor

SEE Eld. Haskell’s article on Tract Society. The appointment for State Quarterly Meeting is taken up. Don’t fail to report.

Change of Address.

By Editor

The P. O. address of Elder J. N. Loughborough is Ravenswood, Shirley Road, Southampton, England.

Rain.

CALIFORNIA was visited by a quite heavy rain, Monday and Monday night of this week. It was general, covering considerable of the State.

Bro. Healey’s Improving Health

By Editor

WE learn from Bro. Healey that his health is slowly improving. He says:—"I would like to hold a tent meeting this Fall, but I cannot do it, and must try to content myself. But the cause does seem to need laborers so much that I almost tremble with anxiety. May God help us all to do our duty." May the Lord bless, and grant a speedy recovery.

"I would like to hold a tent meeting this Fall, but I cannot do it, and must try to content myself. But the cause does seem to need laborers so much that I almost tremble with anxiety. May God help us all to do our duty."

It Will be Agitated.

By Editor

A MAN in Mississippi, to whom the SIGNS has been sent, writes:—"I have read the pamphlets, and the paper which some one sent to me. Some of the Baptists here have been writing about the Sabbath; they cannot tell when it was changed from the seventh day to the first. When they learned that the question was like to be agitated, the editor of the Southern Baptist desired them to stop. I look upon the proof presented in your works to be very strong, and do not see how it can be set aside."

Our Name.

By Editor

A FRIEND writing to this Office asks,—“Why do you call yourselves Seventh-day Adventists? It seems to me your faith differs out little from that of the Regular Baptists.”

We take that name because it best expresses the peculiarities of our faith. We are Adventists, believing that the coming of the Lord is near, and we keep the seventh-day, because it is the Sabbath of the Lord, therein differing from the majority, who keep the first day. But, why do you call yourselves Regular Baptists? Baptists may distinguish you from those who are properly Rhantists, but why take the name or title of “Regular.” That does not indicate anything in particular either in faith or practice. We, in turn, desire an explanation.

Not Answered.

The S. F. Call contains the following question and answer:—

“Please explain what B’nai B’rith (referring to a location in this city) means.”

“B’nai B’rith is the name of a Hebrew society, and the large building known by that name contains halls wherein the different Lodges of the Order meet.”

Which is to say that it refers to that to which it refers; but what it means was unanswered. Berith, pronounced exactly as our English word, beneath, means a covenant. Ben, is son; benai is the plural construct, or genitive plural, definite article understood. This is largely translated in the common version, children. The meaning of the phrase is sons or children of the covenant.

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