The first right of every child is to be well born; and by this I mean that it has a right to the best conditions, physical, mental, and moral, that is in the power of the parents to secure. Without this, the child is defrauded of his rights at the outset, and his life can hardly fail of being a pitiful protest against nature’s broken laws. Good health, good habits, sound mentality, and reverent love should form the basis of every new life that is invoked. The mother who gives herself up to morbid fancies, who considers her health an excuse for petulance and non-exercise of self-control, proves herself unworthy of the holy office of mother, and ought not to be surprised if she reap, at a later day, the bitter harvest of her unwise sowing.
Second in importance to none, as a means of securing the happiness and best good of childhood and youth, is the right to be taught obedience. It is easy to submit to what we know is inevitable, and, to the little child, the requirement of the parent should be law without appeal. The tender, immature being shut in by the unknown, where every relation is a mystery, and every advance an experiment, has a right to find itself everywhere sustained and directed by the parent. It should not be tempted to resistance by laws that are imperfectly enforced, nor subjected to the injurious friction of discussion by having a long list of reasons given for every requirement. The habit of obedience to the parents may be formed before the child is two years old; and this is a necessary precedent of obedience to law, the next stage of a true development.
The child has a right to employment and the free use of its faculties. “What shall I do?” is the plaintive wail of many a little one imprisoned in rooms where everything is too nice to be played with, and among grown-up people who cannot endure noise. “Sit down and keep quiet,” is too often the impatient answer—an answer which I never hear without an indignant mental protest. I admonish you, father, mother, guardian, into whose hands God has committed the sacred trust of a child’s life, be careful how you betray it! Beware how you hinder a soul’s development by a selfish seeking of your own convenience!
Absolute reliance on the love of the parents, faith in their wisdom that forbids doubt, are indispensable conditions of a healthy and happy development. They constitute the fertile soil and genial atmosphere in which all beautiful human affections bud and blossom. “Father does what is right,” “Mother knows better than I,” are the instinctive utterances of a child whose life and education have been rightly begun. That these utterances are not oftener heard, is a severe commentary upon our methods, a sad indication how much the rights of children have been neglected.
The child has a right to ask questions and to be fairly answered; not to be snubbed as if he were guilty of an impertinence, nor ignored as though his desire for information were of no consequence, nor misled as if it did not signify whether true or false impressions were made upon his mind. He has a right to be taught everything which he desires to learn, and to be made certain, when any asked-for information is withheld, that it is only deferred till he is older and better prepared to receive it. Answering a child’s questions is sowing the seeds of its future character. The slight impression of to-day may have become a rule of life twenty years hence. A youth in crossing the fields dropped cherry-stones from his mouth, and at old age retraced his steps by the trees laden with luscious fruit. But many a parent whose heart is lacerated by a child’s ingratitude might say:
“The thorns I bleed withal are of the tree I planted.”
To answer rightly a child’s questions would give scope for the wisdom of all the ancients; and to illustrate needed precept by example would require the exercise of every Christian virtue.—Victoria Magazine.
Lead Water-Pipes.
By John Harvey Kellogg
NOTWITHSTANDING the frequency with which public attention has been called to the fact that water which has passed through lead pipes is rendered poisonous, there seems to be little, if any diminution in the use of this dangerous means of conveying water. In small cities and rural districts, where cisterns are employed, the water is often collected from roofs which are covered with tin, small sheets being soldered together. The water is then conveyed to the cistern in eave-troughs made in the same way, and is finally drawn from the cistern through a lead pipe. Tin roofs and eave-troughs are even worse than lead, on account of the solder used in their construction. As is well known, solder is composed largely of lead; and being an amalgam, the lead contained in it is even more readily oxidized than the pure metal, in obedience to a chemical law relating to all amalgams.
In large cities, lead pipe is almost universally employed to distribute the water from the large iron pipes to the various blocks and apartments where it is to be used. Convenience of adaptation is doubtless its great recommendation. In this respect it is much superior to pipes made of any other metal, but life and health are much too valuable to be sacrificed to mere convenience. Neither is the question of expense one which is worthy of consideration.
It is a general opinion, for which certain reckless chemists are responsible, that only soft or pure water is liable to be affected by lead pipes, it being asserted that water which contains lime will form an insoluble coating upon the interior of the pipe, which will effectually prevent contact of the water with the lead. This would be true if the water contained no free carbonic acid; but as this gas is always in solution in the water, thus giving it the power to dissolve the insoluble deposits which may occur, it is readily seen that even hard water cannot be safely used after passing through a lead pipe.
Thousands of people are being constantly poisoned by the water employed for drinking and cooking purposes without a suspicion of the cause of their unpleasant symptoms. They suffer a long time with obstinate constipation, colic pains, and flatulence. Perhaps a little discoloration of the gums will be next observed. At last, when lifting some weight, the muscles of the arms will suddenly become powerless, the wrists will drop, and the individual, becoming alarmed, will send for a physician, who at once discovers the characteristic symptoms of lead paralysis. At the large hospitals of New York and Philadelphia may be found numerous cases of this kind. Some recover, others remain permanent sufferers.—J. H. K. in Health Reformer.
Superior People.
One word more to the teachers waiting for scholars before they and their multitudinous swarms disappear from view for another six months—don't inflict too many great men on the next generation. There is not a Bob or Joe who shoulders his school-bag this week who has not been adjured from his cradle to become a President, a missionary, or a millionaire, “a great and good man” of some sort or other. As soon as he could walk, mother and father were on the watch to discover peculiar talent in him. From the day he enters school until he leaves it, the prizes and honors are the objects at which they aim for him. That he should jog on with the hard-working rank and file of boys, who master just enough knowledge to enable them to jog on afterward with the rank and file outside, honest mechanics, tradesmen, professional men, agreeable fellows and good workers who earn their bread and butter and make no mark in the world—what father or mother imagines such a fate possible for their prodigy? Yet in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of the thousand he does so jog on, in school and in the world, and bears the gall and bitterness of disappointments that he could not reach the unattainable mark they set before him.
It is not only the school-boy who shares in this gasping race for greatness; the American of any age scorns mediocrity, the level middle place to which he rightfully belongs. If he is in trade he must be a Fisk, if he is in politics, a Butler (for these are our gods, O Israel!). He is in reality a ward politician or a dry goods clerk; but why shall he not have immortal longings in him and be overworked and neuralgic and disagreeable in consequence, as the rest of the aspiring Smiths and Joneses who are his neighbors? His wife and children strain and work breathlessly for the cordon bleu of whatever sort it may be which bewilders their fancy; they dress and talk and actually live after the fashion of some village aristocrat who is their demigod, but whose habits fit them as badly as their old clothes would do. But worse woe befalls them if greatness has really overtaken them! Whether it be money or position or the possession of a little more culture than their neighbors, how exaggerated is the glory in their own eyes! How the sprig of broom in their caps turns into a royal crown! Or if they cannot claim pre-eminence on their own account with any hope of success, they manage to know somebody else in whose reflected light they may shine. Dutton's grandmother was a friend of Mrs. Dolly Madison's and aided that lady in her stately receptions, and little Van Nott was taken into Dickens's set in London, and has dined and wined with Thackeray. Shall they not look down affably on all ignoble humanity thereafter?
Another phase of this morbid hankering for superiority shows itself noticeable among lonely unmarried women in inland villages and country places, of finer tastes and instincts than their kinsfolk; women who invariably read The Tribune, and best magazines, and usually essay to write for them once a year. The class is larger in this than in any other country; they drag through their routine of sewing, housework, etc., with lifeless exactitude, and spend their strength and energy in studying and forming themselves. Missionary circles they regard as a snare, and canning fruits is to them but foolishness. They mold themselves on some lofty model—Eugenie de Guerin, if religion is their hobby; or if they are literary, pour over the brilliant successes of this poetess or that lecturer with bitter bewailing over their own balked chances. Now, if these and all other aspirants for eminence would but consider the hordes of commonplace people about them, what a wholesome change society would experience. The vestal virgin who sighs over the “lack of intellectuality in Smithville” will never find a Mrs. Browning or John Stuart Mill there, but the carpenter who is building her hen-roost could give her ideas about the qualities of woods, and the belts of timber through the States, that would be new to her, and the ostler in the stable belonged to a menagerie once, and knows queer traits and stories about the brute beasts more suggestive than any idea in Casa Guidi windows. With our everlasting straining after high ideas we shut our eyes to the mass of ordinary weighty facts about us, which would give breadth and foundation to our minds, just as in our groping for refinement we see nothing of the sound sense, the good feeling, the honesty of our grocer or our milkman.—N. Y. Tribune.
Dead Alive.
By Trash
About fifteen years ago, we gave a lecture on the South Shore, Mass., in which we aimed to show, that, as the common use of tobacco diminished appetite, diminished blood, muscle, health and strength, it must inevitably abridge life, and if so, the habit amounted to suicide in the constructive sense; hence it was a violation of the sixth commandment, which says, “Thou shalt not kill;” and HENCE A SIN.
As we closed, a clergyman rose and observed: “I believe the argument in this lecture conclusive; I believe thousands of tobacco-users are poisoned to death, and are chargeable with cutting short their lives.”
“But I have a difficult case to solve, and I wish the lecturer to solve it. I know a man, within ten miles of this place, who smoked his pipe till the day of his death; and he lived to be ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR YEARS OF AGE!”
We confess, we were puzzled; the question was much to the point, and the audience laughed at our expense. At last, we hit upon the Socratic style of argument, and interrogations helped us out of a dilemma, where grave argument had been of little or no avail. “Sir,” we inquired, “are you sure the old man lived and smoked till he was a hundred and four?” “Yes,” he replied. “How did he look?” “He looked like an Egyptian mummy.” “Had he moral sensibilities?” “Oh, no; he appeared to have no sense of God or religion whatever.” “Did he manifest any public spirit; did he like good schools, good roads, good order, and the like?” “Oh, no; no more than a mud-turtle or oyster.” “Had he a family?” “Yes, a large one, and a mean one,—altogether too large.” “Did he love his family?” “No; I think not.” “Did he hate his family?” “No; I think not.” “All, in a word,—did he love anybody, or hate anybody, dead or alive, in this world or in any world?” “No; I think not.” “Well, well, brother; the conclusion of the whole matter is simply this,—the old man was dead fifty years ago, only you did not bury him!”—Trash.
Christ Our Example in Temptation
CHRIST is our example in temptation. Man has no conception of his need of Christ until this truth is made apparent. Much is said of Christ's dying, and rightly, too, but more should be said of Christ's living. Christ in the wilderness, without company, without food, surrounded by wild beasts, alone, unattended, and apparently unthought of, after the heavenly recognition had been received, bearing himself so wisely, prudently, with such fidelity to truth and to his mission, is a greater mystery than Christ on Calvary, notwithstanding the hate of men, the malice of devils, and the withdrawal of the presence of the Father.
Obituary Notices.
“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
Died, in Bates Co., near Appleton City, Mo., Oct. 13, 1874, of cholera infantum, our dear son Willie H., aged eleven months, lacking a day. We believe he will come again from the land of the enemy. Words of comfort were spoken on the occasion by W. W. Kate, first-day Adventist, from Jer. 31:16. JOHN A. & SARAH R. PREMEPIER.
Died, at Portland, Maine, Oct. 19, 1874, Mrs. Lydia K., wife of Elbridge G. Bolton, aged fifty-six years. She leaves a husband and three daughters, who deeply mourn their loss, also a large circle of friends who sympathize in their bereavement. She embraced the Advent doctrine in 1843, and was among the first who embraced the Lord’s Sabbath in this place. She has always lived a consistent Christian life since that time, and we believe she rests in hope. E. LOBDELL.
Died, in Fosterburg, Madison Co., Ill., Sept. 15, 1874, Bro. Jacob Thompson, in the 63d year of his age. He was a professor of religion for many years before he became an S. D. Adventist. When the truth was presented to him about four years ago by the labors of G. W. Colcord, he willingly embraced it, united with the church in Woodburn, and has been an observer of the Sabbath ever since. We trust he sleeps in Jesus. He leaves a companion and children to mourn their loss. Words of consolation at the funeral by Eld. Young, Disciple, and Eld. Nelson of the M. E. church. WM. PENNIMAN.
Died, Oct. 12, 1874, in Arcada, Gratiot Co., Mich., Zenas Andrews, in the sixty-first year of his age. He embraced Christ and united with the Freewill Baptists in early life, by whom he was ordained a minister. He was a believer in the first angel’s message, and greatly rejoiced at the prospect of Christ’s soon coming. He fully indorsed the truth of the third angel’s message, and tried to live it out. He was ever ready to encourage his brethren by his example and counsel. He leaves a wife and four children, who were present to witness his triumphant death, as a little previous he sang:—
> “Oh! for a thousand tongues to sing
> My great Redeemer’s praise.”
F. NELSON.
Died, at Becket Center, Sept. 20, 1874, Miss Emily Phinney, aged 38 years, 1 month, and 6 days. For many years she has been a true follower of our Lord, trusting in a Saviour’s love. The last four years, she has been confined to her bed, a great sufferer, caused by being thrown from a wagon on returning from the church of which she was a member, and where she loved to go. Through all her sufferings, she felt that Christ was precious. Funeral discourse by Rev. E. Dow, from Ps. 36:7. M. M. BROWN.
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
** Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 269 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago are invited to attend.
The Vermont Tract Society will hold its quarterly meetings as follows:
District No. 1, at Bordoville, Nov. 21, 22,
“ “ 2, “ Brownington, “ 28, 29,
“ “ 3, “ Wolcott, Dec. 5, 6,
“ “ 4, “ Bristol, “ 12, 13,
“ “ 5, “ Jamaica, “ 19, 20.
In connection with the Jamaica meeting will be the general quarterly meeting. If nothing in the providence of God prevents, I design to attend these meetings. The above arrangement is made with advice and counsel of the President of the Vermont Tract Society. We expect to see a general turnout at these meetings. No postponement on account of weather. S. N. Haskell.
Quarterly meeting Dec. 12, and 13, 1874, with the Irvin church in Howard Co., Ind. All the friends of the cause who can, are invited to attend. Eld. S. H. Lane is expected.
James Harvey.
Providence favoring, there will be a quarterly meeting of the Sabbath-keepers of Davis, Caldwell, and Grundy Counties, to be held with the church at Civil Bend as Bro. Mallory may appoint, meeting to commence Friday evening, Nov. 13, 1874, and continue over Sabbath and Sunday. Brn. Sharp and Stevens are expected to be with us. Let all come prepared to seek the Lord.
J. H. Rogers.
The monthly meeting for December will be held with the church at So. Norridgewock, Dec. 19, 20. The Maine T. & M. Society will hold its next general quarterly meeting in connection with this meeting; also Dist. No. 1 will hold its quarterly meeting at this time. We hope to see all come together to work for the salvation of souls.
J. B. Goodrich.
General quarterly meeting of the Tract and Missionary Society of Michigan, Nov. 14 and 15, 1874, at Battle Creek. Each district should hold its district quarterly meeting in season to have its report ready for this meeting. Let this be attended to at once. Send reports of district quarterly meetings to the general State secretary, Mrs. E. B. Gaskill, Battle Creek, Mich. Bro. S. N. Haskell will attend the general quarterly meeting.
E. H. Root, Pres.
Quarterly meeting of the churches of district No. 10 of Mich. T. & M. Society, Nov. 7 and 8, with the church in Dryden, Mich. Hope the librarians will see that each member reports in season. Bro. Lamson or Waggoner will be present. Shall expect a good delegation from each church.
Wm. Potter, Director.
Quarterly meeting for the churches of Saginaw Co., at St. Charles, Nov. 7, 8, 1874; also the T. & M. quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 8 in connection.
John McGregor.
Meeting of the church of Monroe, Wisconsin, Nov. 14 and 15. Hope all the scattered brethren and sisters will attend this meeting. All of the neighboring churches are invited to come up to the feast. Come prepared to work. Eld. O. A. Olsen is cordially invited to meet with us at this meeting.
O. H. Pratt, Eld.
Quarterly meeting for Western N. Y., at Olcott, Nov. 14 and 15. Also a meeting of the T. & M. Society.
J. G. Lamson, Clerk.
Quarterly meeting of the Seventh-day Adventists of the Rockton church, Ill., Nov. 14 and 15, 1874. All are invited to attend who can from other churches.
Shubael Pease, Clerk.
The T. and M. Society of Dist. No. 2, Maine, will hold its next quarterly meeting Dec. 12 and 13, at Allen’s Corner, Deering, Maine. Eld. J. B. Goodrich will be present. Mail your reports to me at Allen’s Corner as early as the 6th, so as to be in season. Let there be a general rally at this meeting.
Will E. Morton, Director.
Quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society of Dist. No. 2, N. Y. and Pa., at Roosevelt, Sabbath and first-day, Nov. 14 and 15, 1874. We hope for general attendance, and that all will report in season for the meeting.
Danl. Bowe, Director.
Wanted at this Office.
By James White
In consequence of the editions being exhausted, and not being able to republish at present, we are now in want of Life Incidents, Ministration of Angels, Position and Work, Seven Trumpets, How to Live, and The Two Covenants. Those who have more of these works than they need for present use will confer a favor upon this office by returning them, if they can do so without charge, and receive the wholesale price for them. They can be brought, or sent, by those coming to the Biblical Institute. J. W.
Maxims of Cardinal De Retz.
SOME of the most celebrated aphorisms ever given to the world are those of Cardinal De Retz. As a writer the fame of De Retz rests upon the “Memoirs,” a “most striking and brilliant work.” But his maxims have their value, as the reflections which a great and able man formed from long experience and practice in great business. This was Lord Chesterfield’s opinion, and he adds, “They are true conclusions, drawn from facts, not from speculation.” We subjoin a few of them:
Weak men never yield at the proper time.
There are no small steps in great affairs.
I am persuaded that greater qualities are required to form a good party leader than to form an emperor of the universe; and that in order of the qualities which compose him, resolution should walk hand in hand with judgment—I mean heroic judgment, the principal use of which is to distinguish the extraordinary from the impossible.
Upon men of small understanding nothing makes so deep an impression as what they do not understand.
When fear rises to a certain height it produces the same effect as temerity. Fear never supplies the proper remedy.
We should never play with favor; we cannot too closely embrace it when it is real, nor fly too far from it when it is false.
A man who distrusts himself never truly confides in any one.
Men never believe others can do what they cannot do themselves.
The effects of weakness are inconceivable, and I maintain that they are far vaster than those of the most violent passions.
I have remarked that ill-founded enmities are ever the most obstinate. The reason of this is clear. As offenses of that kind exist only in the imagination, they never fail to grow and swell in that receptacle, too fruitful to evil fancies.
Rapid Sales.
By James White
THE Hygienic Family Almanac for 1875 is having rapid sales at this early date. We have printed about 25,000 copies, and are making preparations to print another edition of 25,000 soon. One order of 2,000 copies is being put up as we write. It should find its way to 100,000 families ahead of the coming deluge of Drug Almanacs. Send in your orders. Be in season. Price, post-paid, 10 cents a single copy; sixteen copies for $1.00. Special rates to dealers and Tract and Missionary Societies by the thousand copies, also when taken to give to friends. Let the Hygienic Family Almanac find its place at the fireside of 100,000 families ahead of those whose mission is to advertise poisons. J. W.
Note That Man.
THE following is from the Champlain Journal of Oct. 3, 1874. It has reference to the same person mentioned in the Review of Sept. 29, 1874, in reference to whose movements S. D. Adventists would do well to keep posted:—
The public is warned against harboring and aiding a tall, slim man, with sandy side whiskers and blue eyes, calling himself Wm. L. Smith, who has recently visited Champlain and proved himself to be an imposter. He makes pretenses of being a Seventh-day Adventist, and by calling on persons of that belief and telling a plausible story of his connection with the printing establishment at Battle Creek, in Michigan, and present unexpected destitution during a journey, has obtained advances of money from several in this vicinity. Proof is now brought forward which shows he secured this money and aid under false pretenses. He is now supposed to be operating in towns west of us. Look out for him.
Tracts in French.
By D. T. Bourdeau
THE following French tracts can be obtained at reasonable prices by writing to REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Michigan: Bible Tracts, Nos. 1—5. Subjects: The Millennium, The Second Advent, the Two Thrones, Representing the Kingdoms of Grace and of Glory, The Judgment; or, the Waymarks of Daniel to the Holy City, The Sanctuary of the Bible, The Sabbath of the Bible, Exposition of Dan. 2 and 7, Temperance, Relating to Moderation in Eating, and to Spirituous Liquors, Tobacco, Tea and Coffee, Defense of the Truth Against the Attacks of Mr. Totel, Evangelist.
We hope our brethren and sisters generally will interest themselves in the judicious circulation of these tracts. D. T. BOURDEAU.
“My Experience.”
By R. F. Cottrell
CONVERSING with a stranger on the question of the claims of the seventh and first days to be regarded as the Sabbath, he referred me to the testimony of learned men who declared that the first day has ever been observed as such by the church from the days of the apostles. I replied that other men equally learned denied it, and asked him how we should decide. We have the writings of the apostles, and must go to them to decide the question. But said he, “The testimony of these learned and good men agrees with my experience.” So he decided the question of history by his experience.
I find there are many that profess a deep experience and perfect consecration, who reason like this: The Lord blesses me abundantly, giving me the witness of the Spirit that he owns me as his child. He would not do this, if I were in error in regard to the Sabbath, and were sinning against him every week in laboring on the seventh day. Therefore I must be right in keeping the first day. The Lord blesses us in keeping Sunday; therefore we are doing right.
These, instead of trying the spirits by revealed truth, try the word of the living God by the spirit that is in them. Their experience and their conscience are exalted above the word of God. Instead of going “to the law and to the testimony,” to prove that they have the “light in them,” they take the light that is in them to prove that they need not heed the law and testimony. They seem to forget that the word of God shall judge them in the last day. What a terrible delusion! Instead of receiving the truth and being sanctified by it, they make their sanctification a shield against the truth. Says Jesus, “Sanctify them through Thy truth; thy word is truth.”
R. F. COTTRELL.
Useful Hints
An earnest and successful Sabbath-school laborer, now of Pittsfield, Mass., in his printed New Year's pastoral address, among other very excellent suggestions, puts this all-important truth thus: We recommend to you all, and especially to Sabbath-school teachers and scholars, the following plan for Bible study:—
R P E R A A D Y.
S P T R U A D Y E.
T P H R I A N Y K.
Mix your praying through all your reading, study, and thought. Remember each member of your class by name when in your closet. “Tell Jesus” what you would have for each. Expect glorious results.—Christian Cynosure.
The Signs of the Times.
By James White
The eighth number of the Signs of the Times has come to hand by which we learn many interesting things relative to the California annual camp meeting, the tent meeting now in progress in the city of San Francisco, and other matters of importance on the Pacific Coast. The brethren in California have pledged very liberally for the support of the paper, and the Conference has assumed its publication, and also its editorial management.
We purchased the material and published seven numbers of the Signs on our own responsibility, but being unexpectedly fastened at head quarters, we offer the Signs to the California Conference at cost, the first seven numbers at what the next seven shall cost, and leave that Conference to act its pleasure in making up losses and extra expenses in connection with our arduous labors in that State during the last season. And when this shall be closed up to the satisfaction of the California Conference Committee, we propose to donate to the Signs of the Times a sum equal to $100 for each and every $25 given by the man who suggests the most doubts relative to our financial management on the Pacific Coast.
But we were sorry to see that the Signs is dated at Woodland instead of Oakland. It is true that, in a statement addressed to the California Conference, we suggested that for the present the paper be moved to Woodland to be managed in the same office with the Yolo Democrat conducted by Bro. Wm. Saunders, the editor of that paper, he to have the supervision of the Signs, and give special attention to the local matters that might appear in the Signs, while the editors of the REVIEW AND HERALD would furnish the general editorials, and select the general articles. The removal of the Signs to Woodland was not suggested as the best course, but as the only one we could see at that time.
And as soon as the news reached us, that the friends of the cause in California had pledged $20,000 for the Signs, we telegraphed and wrote not to have it moved from Oakland. But unnecessary changes were made in the Signs before the message was received. If the brethren had manifested a tithe of the interest, when we were struggling nearly alone last summer to bring about just what all may now see was the will of God, that they did at the camp-meeting, we might now have a $10,000 building in Oakland, furnished with material, and a steam press, in running order, ready to make over to an Association when instituted.
We have some men among us, even on the Pacific Coast, who are eloquent in suggesting doubts, and seem to have more use for the brake than for the traces: and others, who, when they get started may run ahead of news on the wires. Brethren, let us “make haste slowly,” and all learn to pull together when the load starts hard. It would be our choice to make our head quarters in California, and visit the broad eastern field in the more pleasant season. But we go, or stay, where the way opens before us, and where we can have co-operation, whether it be on the Pacific, or the Atlantic, or at head quarters.
The work is moving everywhere. We have work for five winters that we would like to do in the very next. We are able to accomplish thrice the amount of labor at present that we have been able to do at any time during the past three years. And Mrs. W. comes from the excessive labors of the past season with better health, and courage, than at any time in her life. God is good. He helps those who are willing to wear out, and lets those have their way, who choose to rust out. If at any time our people on the Pacific need our help, and wish to lift unitedly with us, we shall be happy to respond, according to the will of God.
A BLUE cross on the margin of your paper signifies that your subscription will expire in two weeks, and that an earnest invitation is extended to you to renew at once.
OAKLAND, California, is now my P. O. address.
D. M. CANRIGHT.
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$2.00 EACH. Maria I Butler 46-16, J S Mills 46-17, T B Lewis 46-1, Jas A Hawkins 46-17, H Philips 46-1, Jackson Armstrong 46-15, Wm A Towle 46-18, Francis Morton 46-18, Joseph Turner 46-17, A M Preston 47-1, Rusha Evans 47-8, Jennie Van 48-15, Lola M Reynolds 46-14, Mrs J M Aldrich 46-16, Mrs J House 46-15, E H Shaw 46-17, Sarah Emerson 46-17, Peter Haner 46-17, S Zollinger 46-20, Malhala Jackson 46-18, M Radabaugh 46-14, Mrs I Fuller 46-18, S O Geer 46-18, Martha Brewer 46-16, Mr John Foster 46-18, R B Hart 46-18, Mrs C M Tenny 46-17, Electa L Lane 46-15, Justus Edgerton 46-22, G G Washburn 46-15, Frank Haskell 46-17, F E Lyttaker 46-21, Hester Ferguson 46-14, Wm Carney 46-17, T M Chapman 46-21.
$1.00 EACH. Mrs C B Eels 45-18, A J Corey 44-19, S A Hallock 45-21, C Kelsey 45-1, Wm G Allen 45-15, Horace A Sweet 45-18, M A Baker 45-17, Harbor Lacy 45-1, C Stiles 46-1, Fanny Palmer 46-1, J C Stewart 45-15, J H Haskins 45-17, Henry J Nehr 45-18, James Farrell 45-14, S N Lawrence 46-18, Adaline Bigalow 46-18, Sarah Atkins 46-18, F A Barlow 45-18, C M Tompkins 45-18, S C Wentheral 45-16, Charlotte Chapman 45-16, Mrs C S Eichler 46-18, Wm Phelps 46-18, Mrs E Slocum 45-18, F A Dayton 45-14, Mary Husted 45-13.
MISCELLANEOUS. Allen Wilson 50c 45-14, Eld J H Paton 50c 45-15, Robert Schram 50c 46-1, A F Elsworth 25c 45-4, A B Green 25c 45-4, C R Straight 25c 45-4, Jas Bullock 25c 45-4, Thos C Hazard 25c 45-4, Elisha J Harris 25c 45-4, B S Congdon 25c 45-4, Harriet Gardner 25c 45-14, Wm C Cowen 25c 45-14, Henry D Walter 50c 45-17, Laura Cornell 50c 45-17, D Huggins 50c 45-17, H F States 75c 45-1, Mrs Mary Ann Kellie 50c 45-18, John Burns 50c 45-18, David Bowser 50c 45-18, Wm Albin 50c 45-18, Lloyd Burns 50c 45-18, Louis Albert 50c 45-18, James Roberts 50c 45-18, J A Killingsworth $1.60 45-3, D Burdick 2.25 47-4, A D Tyson 50c 45-4, Chas Magnuson 1.50 46-5, Hattie S Smith 10c 45-4, C A Washburn 1.50 46-5.
Books Sent by Mail.
D L Jaycox 60c, Elizabeth Brown 75c, Mrs M L Porter 10c, John Raedels 10c, Mrs Mary Brown 50c, A H Hall $1.00, Mrs J House 10c, Matt Wing 1.00, Frank George 10c, Sarah A Niles 10c, Almira M Preston 30c, H Hilliard 1.00, Jesse B T Nichols 1.00, Wm A Marshall 40c, W C Loomis 30c, R I White 10c, Clara Aldrich 10c, Miss Addie Gillett 20c, C A Butler 10c, Matilda Vanniman 1.13, A H Blake 10c, R M Killgore 1.00, A Bonney 10c, Miss Lucy J Dunscomb 20c, Mrs C E Millard 10c, Louisa Upson 2.30, James Trice 1.00, Sabrina Simonson 3.69, Peter Lemker 1.00, Doran Warren 25c, Francis Gray 1.30, O D Washburn 10c, Geo B Garvin 50c, C S Eichler 40c, W C Loomis 30c, J H Waggoner 8.10, D A Owen 10c, L B Caswell 10c, J S Howard 20c, S Onderkirk 10c, Mrs O W Morey 20c, E E Phelps 2.00, S Zollinger 1.50, Andrew J Corey 10c, M A Crandall 10c, I S Mills 20c, Nancy E Striplin 5.00, C Turnipseed 1.00, Mrs A Hilton 50c, Kate Eberhart 25c, Chas F Rugg 10c, O R North 10c, D A Robinson 1.00, I T Andrews 10c, Mrs F M Ede 35c, A A John 35c, J F Westcott 1.00, Geo Morrison 3.50, Mary E Kashner 10c, Nathan J Lewis 10c, C H Chaffee 10c, M R Stewart 20c, Addie Worsor 1.00, A J Williams 1.00, Hiram Benedict 20c, John Roberts 10c, Jane A Crowfoot 10c, A H Hull 1.00, Wm Weaver 10c, I S N Patchine 25c, G G Washburn 10c, Harry Linslyer 10c, Freeman Stearns 10c, Wm Whitney 10c, H G Washburn 50c, Philip Strong 10c, John Case 1.25, Dr W J Mills 20c, Sarah M Misner 10c, David F Peffley 10c, Jos E Phelps 30c, G W Collins 1.00, P E Ferren 1.00, Geo W Bruce 10c, Ged Terpiny 35c, L J Hall 1.00, Mrs Robert Oliver 10c, Mrs Emma Quint 10c, C J Nielson 10c, Peleg Taber 10c, Thomas D Wallar 45c, E B Carpenter 10c, James Burdick 10c, F H Dibble 10c, Samuel Danold 10c, S Bagg 10c, D A Robinson 1.00, I Kellogg 2.00, Mrs M Brace 3.50, Chas L Boyd 50c, John W Walter 10c, F C French 10c, D McLaughlin 10c, H Chr. Senn 25c, C A Mitchell 1.00, S H Marshall 50c, Daniel Nettleton 25c.
Cash Received on Account.
S N Haskell $8.50, T S McDonald 20.00, Geo. A Hobbs 10.00.
Books Sent by Express.
L McCoy, Sigourney, Iowa, $4.00, Daniel Taylor, Traverse City, Mich., 3.46, Alex Carpenter, Brighton, Livingston Co., Mich., 3.00.
Books Sent by Freight.
James Harvey, South Bend, St Joseph Co., Ind., $42.45, S N Haskell, West Enosburgh, Vermont, 148.50.
Michigan Conference Fund.
Received from Ransom Center $55.00, Napoleon $25.00.
For Michigan Tent.
Leonard Swazy $5.00.
Book Fund.
M Lamson $1.00, M P West 1.00, M J Ray 5.00, Mrs Philo 3.00, V A Brewer 2.00.
Hygienic Book Fund.
Jonathan Lamson $25.00, M Lamson 1.00.
Shares in the S. D. A. P. Association.
F W Luke $10.00, M K Owen 10.00, Elizabeth Stevenson 10.00.
Michigan T. & M. Society.
District No 11 $11.00.
Foreign Mission.
A M Preston $1.00.
General Conference Tract and Missionary Society.
G A Davis 25c.
S. D. A. Educational Society.
$90.00 Seth H Peck.
$50.00 EACH. D J Burroughs, Alex Carpenter.
$25.00 Mary Wright.
$20.00 Mary King.
$15.00 B—.
$10.00 EACH. W E Chesebro, Wm G Allen, Henry Atwood, Clinton Birch, M H Wheeler, T L Gilbert.
$5.00 EACH. David Alway, Harriet Alway, S A Hallack, Wm Mill, Fanny Estes, A friend, James Hackett, Mrs Annie M Mills, Helen Edgar, Luella Edgar.
$2.00 EACH. V A Brewer.