Earlier text: A Case in PointPLANS FOR THE FUTURE.
By J. D. Rice
At a council of the ministers and licentiates, held September 17, to decide in reference to future labor, the following plans were recommended:— Elder W. M. Healey to remain in San Jose to complete the organization of the church, and take immediate steps toward building a meeting-house. Also to hold tent-meetings in the surrounding country as the way may open. Brethren W. P. Burke and Isaac Morrison to assist in the work. Elder G. D. Ballou to follow up his work in Humboldt County, to be assisted in the missionary work by Brother A. W. Everts. Elder E. A. Briggs to return to his field of labor in Los Angeles County. Elder John Judson was requested to join him in the work. Elder J. D. Rice and wife to stop in Nevada on their way to the General Conference, if they can so arrange their work here as to make it possible. Elder M. C. Israel and Wm. Ings to visit the churches, holding Bible-readings on the most necessary points of faith, uniting such others with them in their labors as would probably develop into efficient workers. Brethren Wm. Butcher and S. McElhany were recommended to connect with them in this work. Brethren L. A. Scott and A. La Rue to prepare to go to the Sandwich Islands. That they first get an experience in holding Bible-readings, and also in the ship work, by connecting with the Mission in San Francisco for a few weeks. In answer to the call for help in Fresno and surrounding churches it was thought that labor put forth just before the spring camp-meeting would be more effectual than now. It was the sense of the meeting that Los Angeles is the proper place to hold the southern camp-meeting next spring. J. D. RICE, Sec. The Maine Camp-Meeting
By I. D. Van Horn
THIS meeting was held on the old ground at Waterville, where it had been held five years in succession. There were but few present from the outside till on Sunday, when nearly one thousand were out to hear Sister White in the afternoon. The meeting began on time, the evening of the 5th. Sister White arrived the next day about noon, in company with one of her sisters. She was feeling quite well and cheerful, and ready to bear her part in the meeting. All were much pleased to see her in her own native State again, and her instructions and testimony were well received. The preaching was similar to that in other meetings we have held, and calculated principally to inspire zeal and devotion in the hearts of our people. Bro. Boynton took up the canvassing work, and, before our camp-meeting closed, some twenty-five or thirty resolved to improve their talents and make efforts to spread the light of truth by this means. The social meetings and seasons for seeking God were fruitful of some good. A few moved forward for the first time, and many who were backslidden returned and sought the Lord for a new experience. Some victories were gained, and determinations were made to reach a higher moral standard. The business meetings moved off harmoniously. Bro. Goodrich was re-elected President of the Conference. A good move was made toward the purchase of a large pavilion, to be used in their future camp-meetings. Their next meeting, therefore, will be held in some other place. This is as it should be. The time has come when the canvass of towns will precede our camp-meetings, and then the multitude can be reached by the truth. Bro. Butler presented the advancing work of the Third Angel’s Message, and the wants of our foreign missions. This inspiring theme created a desire to do something for this branch of the cause, and in a short time pledges were taken to the amount of $681. About $150 of this was paid. The people came up to the close of the meeting with a good degree of courage and hope in their hearts, and go forth to labor more earnestly for God and his cause. We all feel that our toils will soon be over, and, if faithful, we shall be gathered with the saved and enter the kingdom of God. Sept. 13, 1883. I. D. VAN HORN. Patience as a Christian Grace
PATIENCE is a Christian grace that all should cultivate. It is not the result of ignorance or apathy, but a sweet trust in God and a humble reliance on his grace in the midst of trials and afflictions. It is necessary to our comfort. The Development of Christian Character
CHRISTIAN character is not an act, but a process; not a sudden creation, but a development. It grows and bears fruit like a tree, and like a tree it requires patient and unwearied attention. Repentance and Divine Promise
God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth. “Better be at work,” grumbled John Spencer, as he passed the minister's house and saw Jennie, the minister's daughter, feeding the birds that came every day to her window. “My girls have something else to do. I'll not give a single cent to support such lazy doings.” “Good morning, Mr. Spencer,” said a friendly voice. “I want to know how much you will put down for Mr. Elder's salary this year? We want to increase it to $500 if we can.” “Not one cent,” was his slow, emphatic answer. “Oh! you're jesting, Mr. Spencer,” said his good-humored neighbor. “No, I'm in earnest. My girls have something better to do than feeding birds. Humph! Do you see that!” and he pointed to a window where Jenny Elder, the minister's daughter, stood feeding half a dozen birds that flew close to her hand, one or two of them even lighting on her shoulder. “Well, that is beautiful!” exclaimed Mr. Egbert. “I think she'd better be at work,” replied Mr. Spencer, in rather a hard voice. Mr. Egbert turned and looked at his neighbor in mute surprise. “I mean just what I say,” added Mr. Spencer. “My daughters have no time to waste after that fashion, and I can't see that I am under any obligation to support other people's daughters in idleness.” “Jenny Elder is no idle girl,” said Mr. Egbert, a little warmly. “Don't you call that idleness?” “No, it is both rest and invigoration. The ten minutes spent with these birds will sweeten her life for a whole day. She will hear them twittering as she goes about her household duties, and be stronger and more cheerful in consequence.” Mr. Spencer shook his head, but not with the emphasis of manner shown a little while before. A new thought had come to his mind. A bird had flown in through a window of his own soul. “Work, work, work, every hour and every minute of the day,” said Mr. Egbert, “is not best for any one—not best for Jenny Elder, nor for your daughters, nor mine.” “Nobody says it is,” replied Mr. Spencer. “But—but—” His thoughts were not very clear, and so he hesitated. “The rest that gives to the mind a cheerful tone, that makes it stronger and healthier, is true rest, because it includes refreshment and invigoration.” “Nobody denies that,” replied Mr. Spencer. “And may not Jenny's ten minutes with the birds give her just the refreshment she needs, and make her stronger for the whole day? If not stronger, then more cheerful, and you know how much comfort to a household one cheerful spirit may bring.” “You have such a way of putting things,” replied the neighbor in a changed voice. “I never saw it in that light before.” “If we can get down to the heart of things, we are all right,” was the smiling answer. And now we want to know how much we may count on from you towards Mr. Elder's salary. Open wide the windows; let just and generous thoughts come in.” “As much as last year; perhaps more; I'll think over the matter,” was replied. While sitting at dinner with his family on that day Mr. Spencer broke the constrained silence, the usual accompaniment of their meal, with the words:— “I saw a very beautiful sight this morning.” Both the sentence and the tone in which it was spoken were a surprise. A weight seemed removed from every one—a shadow fell from each dull countenance. All eyes were fixed in inquiry upon him. “Jenny Elder at a window, with wild birds feeding from her hands, and sitting on her shoulders,” added Mr. Spencer. “Oh, yes; I've seen it often,” said Margaret, his oldest daughter, a light breaking over her face. “Jenny is so good and sweet that even the birds love her. I wish they would come to my window.” “You must ask Jenny her secret,” said the father, with a gentleness in his voice that was such a surprise to Margaret that she looked at her father in astonishment. Mr. Spencer noticed and understood the meaning of her look. He felt it as a revelation and rebuke. The dead silence soon passed away. First one tongue and then another was unloosed; and in a little while the whole family were in pleasant conversation—a thing so unusual at meal-time that each member of the family noted the fact in a kind of bewildered surprise. Mr. Spencer opened the windows of his soul still wider, and let the singing birds come in. All the hours of that day he pondered the new ideas suggested by Mr. Egbert, and the more he considered them the clearer it became that there was a better way to secure the happiness of himself and family than the hard and narrow one he had been pursuing. Minds needed something as well as bodies. Tastes and feelings had their especial needs. Soul hunger must be attended to and satisfied. As he came home from his shop that evening he passed a store the windows of which were filled with cages of singing birds; and as his eyes rested on them he remembered how often he had heard Margaret wish for a canary, and how he had as often said: “Nonsense; you've got something better to do than wasting your time with birds.” But Mr. Spencer saw things in a different light now. “She shall have a bird,” he said, speaking to himself, and turned into the store. “Oh, father! not for me?” Mr. Spencer was taken by surprise at the sudden outburst of delight that came from Margaret, when she understood that he had really bought her the bird. Tears filled her eyes. She threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. “It was so kind of you—and I wanted a bird so much!” she said. “Oh, I'll be so good, and do everything for you I can.” What a sweet feeling warmed the heart of Mr. Spencer through and through. The delight of this moment was greater than anything he remembered to have experienced for years. “I am glad my little present gave you so much pleasure, my daughter,” he answered, subduing his voice that he might not betray too much of what he felt. “It's a good singer, the man said.” “It's a beauty!” returned Margaret, feasting her eyes on the pretty bird; “and I'll love it if it doesn't sing a note.” “Such a little thing to give so much pleasure!” Mr. Spencer said to himself as he sat and pondered this new phase of life. And to his thoughts came this reply: “A cup of water is a little thing, but to thirsty lips it is sweeter than nectar.” And then, as if a window had been opened in his soul, a whole flood of new ideas and thoughts came in upon him, and he saw that the mind had needs as well as the body, and that unless these were supplied, life would be poor and dreary—just as his life, and the lives of his wife and children had for the most part been. Mr. Spencer never shut that window, but let the birds fly in and out at pleasure. When Mr. Egbert next saw him he received him with joyous heart and pleasant smile, and doubled his subscription to the minister's salary.—Selected. ALL day the white-haired woman sits
Beside the open door and knits;
No living thing her dim eye sees,
As busy with old memories
She dreams her dreams of what has been,
And knits her old time fancies in. She thinks of those who long ago
Went out across the threshold low;
How many times her listening ear
Had thought familiar footsteps near,
And when she started up to find
A dead leaf rustling in the wind; But never as of those who lie
Beneath the wide and tender sky,
With folded hands and quiet breast
All wrapped about with peace and rest.
She thinks of them. For her they tread
The green earth with her. None are dead. Though years have fallen like the leaves
About the graves where summer weaves
Her grass-fringed coverlet, to keep
Safe hid from all the ones asleep,
She sees them all. No grass nor mold
Can hide the ones she loved of old. She talks with them. When brown-winged bee
Makes merry in the locust tree,
She thinks he comes and sits with her,
Whose voice was love's interpreter.
O dreamer! young again to-day,
What matter if your hair is gray? Sometimes she thinks that round her knee
Her children play in happy glee.
And when they tired and sleepy grow,
She sings some songs of long ago,
And on her loving mother's breast
She rocks the little ones to rest. O dreamer! knitting all the day
Your dreams in with your stitches gray,
Yours is a happy, happy heart—
A haunted world from ours apart—
The years that turn your tresses gray
Have given you back your youth to-day.
—Selected. Four boys were full of fun; they wanted to see the people get a tumble as they came out of church, so they stretched a rope across the sidewalk, and hid behind the hedge to “have a good laugh.” Little Alice came running down the street; she had been carrying a basket of fruit and flowers to Aunt Comstock, who was ill; and the cheery words spoken by the invalid made the little girl very happy, so she came hopping and singing along, gay as any bird. The night was dark, the street lamps dim and far apart. The little girl fell. The boys ran away. After service the people found the rope; they found something else lying near, lying quite still; and bore it to the light—poor little Alice! It was long before she opened her eyes again; and then it was only to know she could not skip about any more, could never even sit in her cosy chair; but must lie on her couch all the years of her life. Just for fun! Johnny and Charlie wanted a laugh. “Girls are such sillies, you know!” Johnny made a dough face and put it on Charlie, wrapped him in a sheet, and hid him behind the tall old clock on the stairs. Dear little Mamie came down the the long corridor hushing Dollie in her arms. An awful groan and a flourish of white from out the shadows!—a shriek, a flying figure, and a fall! The boys had their fun, but Johnny has no sister now. Some young men in college “must have some fun, you know,” so they pinioned a companion and poured brandy down his throat. A few hours later this telegram went flashing over the wires into a peaceful home: “Come at once, your son is dead.” To-day those boys are wanderers over the face of the earth; behind them is a desolate home and an early grave—“all for a little fun!” Five or six idle boys wanted a “jolly time,” so they caught a little homeless dog, saturated its matted and tangled hair with kerosene, then applied a lighted match. In a moment the poor creature was in a blaze. With cries of agony it ran hither and thither—oh, how the boys laughed!—then rushed into the open barn and hid beneath the closely packed hay. In a moment all was ablaze, and before assistance could arrive, barn, house, and the entire contents were destroyed. The boys had their fun; mamma and the little ones were left homeless.—Ex. A wren built her nest in a box on a New Jersey farm. The occupants of the farm-house saw the mother teaching her young to sing. She sat in front of them and sang her whole song very distinctly. One of the young attempted to imitate her. After proceeding through a few notes its voice broke, and it lost the tune. The mother recommenced where the young one had failed, and went very distinctly through with the remainder. The young bird made a second attempt, commencing where it had ceased before and continuing the song as long as it was able, and when the notes were again lost the mother began where it had stopped and completed it. Then the young one resumed the tune, and finished it. This done, the mother sang over the whole series of notes the second time with great precision, and again a young one attempted to follow her. The wren pursued the same course with this one as with the first, and so with the third and fourth, until each of the birds became a perfect songster.—Selected. Preparation for Great Opportunities
By Wm. Matthews
UNLESS a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to a man exactly what his antecedents have enabled him to make of it.—Wm. Matthews. The Silent Conquest of Self
REAL glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is naught but the first slave. —The French army in Tonquin met with defeat near Harphong. —The 575th anniversary of Swiss independence was celebrated at Petaluma on the 20th inst. —The Philadelphia Mint has been authorized to purchase 50,000 ounces of silver for coining into dimes. —Clifton, Arizona, is said to be so infested with roughs that the local authorities are unable to preserve order. —Seattle, W. T., spent over $10,000 in a jubilation in honor of President Villard of the Northern Pacific Railroad. —The President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company has declined to extend the line from Portland to Astoria. —The price of the New York Times has been reduced from four to two cents per copy, and the Tribune to three cents. —A blind man recently killed a blind companion at Hongkong, in a quarrel, and was sentenced to penal servitude for life. —Chinese sailors have asked the privilege of going ashore at New York and other cities, but have been denied under the treaty. —The Mexican Central Railroad is progressing rapidly, and it is expected will be completed and in full operation by next summer. —Judge Donohue, of the Supreme Court of New York, has annulled a marriage contract wherein the groom was compelled to take the bride as his wife by the threats of her father and brother to shoot him. —Near Kaufman, Texas, on the 21st inst., James Fields shot and killed his brother, as the result of whisky and an old quarrel. —The Telegraph informs us that an "old-fashioned thunder-storm" visited San Bernardino on the 20th inst., with a heavy shower of rain. —Dr. Foye, of the San Francisco Small-pox Hospital, reports to the Board of Health that he has nineteen patients, all of whom are lepers. —The State of Kentucky has erected a marble statue of ex-President Zachary Taylor, at the old homestead, on a monument thirty feet high. —Destructive forest fires are reported on the Columbia River, near Rooster Rock, Oregon; also in the mountains back of Vancouver, W. T. Articles of incorporation of the International Northern Telegraph Company have been filled in New York, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. —It is said the abolition of the tax on matches is driving the manufacturers of poor stock out of the business, owing to the cheapness of good brands. —Popular demonstrations in China are demanding the abdication of the Emperor, who is said to be lacking in energy commensurate with the times. —The bark Britannia was wrecked off the coast of Nova Scotia last week and thirteen lives lost. They were exposed to a fearful storm nearly two days. —Telegraphic connection between the United States and Brazil has been opened via Galveston, Texas, and congratulatory messages passed by the President and Emperor. —Italy is having some socialistic experience, as well as other countries. In Ravenna they are making demands for reform in the usual way. The leaders were arrested. —There is now considerable stir in scientific circles over the reported finding of Noah's ark. There is one thing certain, it would be rather a difficult article to counterfeit. —The Secret Service Bureau has in possession a five-dollar note of the Irish Republic, recently reported in circulation. It is said to be a fair imitation of a U. S. treasury note. —The American mercantile marine has been notified by French authorities that all vessels carrying war materials to Tonquin will be captured as privateers by the French navy. —The Apaches are committing depredations in Arizona again—the last being the murder of a stock man near Tombstone. There are 1,100 braves absent from San Carlos reservation. —It is reported that the American Minister to China has joined, with the English representatives in urging the Chinese Government to come to an understanding with France in regard to Tonquin. —From Alaska are reports of very rich placer gold diggings—even to $150 a day per man, but the working season is very short. The salmon fisheries are also reported as doing a flourishing business. —A dreadful boiler explosion took place in the Sligo Iron Works, Pittsburg, on the 20th inst. Seven deaths are reported, with a long list of wounded, while several buildings in the vicinity were set on fire. —A difficulty has arisen at El Paso between the police authorities and the Mexican Consul regarding the extradition of prisoners across the line. The Consul is said to have treated the police with insolence. —A lady in San Francisco claims to be the wife of Senator Sharon, and has published a document purporting to be the marriage contract entered into privately. The Senator, on the contrary, pronounces it a forgery. —Rev. James Kemlo, of Newark, N. J., quarreled with his wife last week, plunged a knife into her throat, then drew it across his own throat, and jumped out of a four-story window. Neither of them are expected to live. —The Postmaster-General is determined to carry out in full the law denying mail facilities to lottery concerns. There are only three States in the Union where lotteries are permitted—Kentucky, Louisiana, and Colorado. —The Central Pacific Railroad Co. has preferred charges of misdemeanor against Freight Conductor Thompson, who it is alleged was responsible for the collision of his train with the overland express near this city, a week ago. —There is a revival of war talk in Europe, and although there has been considerable hobnobbing among the crowned heads, and expressions of good feeling, those who claim to know, maintain that great uneasiness prevails, and prognostications are rife as to pending complications between Russia and Austria. —The yellow fever is said to be much worse in Guaymas, Mazatlan, and Hermosillo than at first reported. Two thousand persons are reported stricken at Gauymas. There is a strict quarantine against its introduction to this State by water, but none against it overland, and fears are entertained that it may reach us in this way. —A Stockton dispatch says that the largest crowd was in town that ever visited a fair in that place. After stating that the race-track is in excellent condition; that every stall at the track is full; that in the pools for a four-year-old race, a certain horse is first choice at $30.00, etc., there comes in the startling announcement that "gambling will be prohibited." —Sacramento County has three murderers awaiting execution. They have all made appeal to the Supreme Court, and the sentences have been affirmed, leaving no chance for escape but the Governor's pardon, which is not expected. —The Dakota Constitutional Convention has completed its work, and upon adjourning, adopted a resolution to submit any additional measure to a vote of the people upon petition of 5,000 voters, and upon a majority vote in favor, the measure shall be incorporated in the Constitution. —Adolph Hartman, for thirteen years cashier of the Humboldt Savings and Loan Society, San Francisco, committed suicide last Saturday. He had been guilty of systematic peculations from deposits for a long time; and finally became desperate over the probabilities of detection. —Another relief party will probably be sent to the Arctic regions this fall in search of the missing Greely party of explorers. The last relief expedition lost both their vessels, and the crews made narrow escapes. Even some of the enthusiasts are beginning to despair of this Arctic business. —Special Treasury Agent Evans has returned from Washington Territory, where he has been investigating the reports as to the smuggling of Chinese from British Columbia. He states that he has given much time to the investigation, and that he has failed to find evidence that such smuggling is going on. —Trouble appears to be brewing between Australia and the home government. Lord Derby has condemned the project of annexing the South Pacific Islands to Australia, and it is feared that his policy will cause the flooding of the colonies with French convicts. In the Victorian Parliament there was strong talk of devising ways and means to help themselves. —A Galveston, Texas, dispatch of the 18th inst., says that a reign of terror prevails throughout the county. From the threats and speeches of a few colored persons of bad repute, a general uprising against the whites has been feared. The white farmers have their families closely guarded, and are securing all the ammunition and arms that they can get possession of. —European correspondence says that the Austro-German alliance is directed against Russia and France. In the event of war between Germany and France, Austria is to maintain an army of neutrality. In the event of war between Austria and Russia, Germany is to do likewise. If a third party should attack Germany or Austria, the armed neutrality would be converted into active co-operation. —A cold-blooded murder was committed in Stockton on the 22d inst. Some roughs were passing the house of Julius Deitrich, a painter, when one of them made some insulting remark to Mrs. Deitrich, who was walking in front of the house. She called her husband, who came out and after some words had passed between him and the party, one of them drew a pistol and fired, killing him instantly. The murderer was arrested, and barely escaped lynching. —The new double turreted monitor Monadnock was launched at Vallejo on the 18th inst. This new war vessel has been built at a private yard, in face of Mare Island Navy Yard, and has been on the ways since 1875. Its length over all is 262 feet, with extreme breadth of 55½ feet, depth of hold 14 feet, displacement, 3,977 tons. The side armor is seven inches of steel; and the wood embankment twenty-four inches. Including armor, she will cost nearly $2,000,000. —A Convention of all the different sects of Open Communion Baptists is to be held this fall at Minneapolis, Minn. —The New York City Mission of the Bible House reports for August, 41 city missionaries, 311 meetings, 51,250 attendance, 50,500 tracts distributed, 5,687 visits made, 139 temperance pledges obtained, and 310 families relieved. The receipts were $1,236, and the payments $3,846. —It is said that no less than fifteen churches have been added during the past year to those already in the city of Minneapolis, Minn., which are distributed as follows: Presbyterian, one; Unitarian, one; Universalist, one; Roman Catholic, one; Baptist, two; Methodist, three; Congregational, four. —The colored people of New York and Brooklyn are trying to raise money to build a church at San Domingo for their own people. At present there is not a Protestant church in the city of San Domingo. The Government will donate a suitable spot of ground as soon as the funds are secured for the building. —The following is the work of colporteurs of the California Bible Society during the year: Families visited, 2,910; found destitute, including Roman Catholics, 1,287; families supplied, 289, including 161 Roman Catholics; individuals visited, 1,687; supplied, 505. Of the individuals visited 682 were sailors of whom 232 were supplied with the Scriptures in six languages. Thirty ships and other sailing vessels were visited, and the Word of God distributed in eight languages during the month. —All the different branches of the Methodist Church in Canada have now united, so that henceforth in Canada there will be but one body. The Christian at Work thinks that this should stir up the Methodists and Presbyterians of our own country, "to say nothing of the development of a union feeling which shall bring still closer together the various denominations now dis-severed," and predicts that the time will come when "the pulpit hedges and the communion fences are overthrown." —The following item from the Christian at Work will be read with interest by the readers of the SIGNS, whose attention has been of late especially called to the Waldenses: "Many years ago a colony of Vaudois emigrated to South America, and finally settled in the Argentine Republic. They have, amid all their vicissitudes, remained true to the faith of their fathers. The church at home has allotted to them two pastors. Their industry and independent efforts for the education of their children, and general good behavior, attracted the attention of the President of the Republic under which they live. He has lately paid them a visit, and expressed himself much pleased with these model citizens." —The Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, has been preaching in England, while on his vacation, and is considered one of the most eloquent pulpit orators ever heard in that country. The people of Geneva, Switzerland, however, were deprived of the privilege of hearing him, which misfortune happened on this wise, as related by the Times, of that city: "The combined vestries of the American and English churches could not furnish a surplice to fit him, and the reverend gentleman was obliged to forego his intention of preaching because the longest surplice to be found was an inch too short." As the Examiner says, It is a case of no gown, no gospel. The reverend gentleman would modify the charge to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, by adding, "providing you can find a gown large enough." JONES—Died of consumption and cancer, in Monterey, Mich., Aug. 20, 1883, Orrin B. Jones, aged fifty-eight years. Bro. Jones was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., in 1825. He early removed to Michigan, locating first in Marshall, and then in Monterey, where he has lived more or less at intervals to the present time. When the present truth was preached there in 1857, he readily embraced it, and remained one of the staunchest of its friends to the close of his life. His ability as carpenter and builder was soon called into requisition in connection with this cause, commencing with the erection of the first brick Office building, after the formation of the Publishing Association, in 1861. He has since had charge of the erection of two other brick Office buildings, the third Battle Creek meeting-house, the Sanitarium, and the College, besides many residences for the Educational Society and for individuals. Two years he spent on the Pacific Coast, having charge of the erection of the San Francisco meeting-house, the meeting-house in Oakland, Cal., and the Office of Publication in the latter place. Thoroughness and faithfulness characterized all his work, and he was generous almost to a fault. Though feeling the affliction of being deprived of the privilege of active labor, which was his delight, yet through all the period of his confinement, commencing last spring, and in all his sufferings which at the last were extremely severe, not an impatient or murmuring word was heard to escape his lips. He leaves a wife, two sons, five brothers, and a sister, and many to whom he was dear in the ties of Christian love, to mourn his loss. The funeral was attended by a large congregation in the meeting-house at Monterey, August 22. Notice.—We send no papers from this Office without pay in advance, unless by special arrangement. When persons receive copies without ordering them they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving them are not indebted to the Office. INDIANA, Bunker Hill, Miami Co., Oct 1-10
ALABAMA, Choctaw Co., " 4-9
MISSOURI, Higginsville, Lafayette Co., " 11-16
KANSAS, Eldorado, Butler Co., " 11-21 Answers and Replies Delayed
By Editor
THE press of business following the camp-meeting, and our ill-health, compels us to lay over for the present answers to questions, replies to letters, and some other matters. “The Church’s Expectation.”
By Editor
In the SIGNS of July 26 we published an article under the above head, credited to “George duke of Manchester.” Inquiry has been made as to the correctness of the credit. Of that we are unable to give any information. We took it from a paper printed a number of years ago; we were pleased with the matter, and therefore copied it, giving the credit as we found it. When it was written, or where it was first published, we have no means of ascertaining. UNDER date of Sept. 14, Eld. J. O. Corliss writes to us, saying: “The school has commenced quite prosperously, and with its present corps of managers we expect it will soon fill the place in the work its founders designed it should.” This is a pleasing report. Eld. C. reports that he is in very poor health, which we much regret. With the present openings in every direction, the cause needs all its workers. All who love present truth should unitedly and earnestly pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers. A Book for the Scandinavians.
WE have received a copy of a new book that should meet with a large sale among the many Scandinavians of this country. We speak understandingly, because it was our good fortune to read the manuscript before it passed into the hands of the translator. It is from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White, and consists of sketches from her religious experience, extracts from her writings, and lessons from the experience of the Christian church. A large portion of the matter was written expressly for this book. The attractive style in which the book is gotten up will add to the favor with which it will be received. It is printed on fine calendered and tinted paper, from new type, and is neatly bound, and contains nearly 400 pages. There are many English-speaking Scandinavians who are familiar with Mrs. White's writings, and know their value. These should exert themselves to circulate this volume among their countrymen. Price of the book, post-paid, $1.00; with steel portrait of author, $1.25. Address SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal., or Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. Sabbath Schools at San Jose
Two very interesting Sabbath-schools were held on the camp-ground at San Jose. No special preparation had been made, either as regards organization or preparation of lessons, for the President of the Association did not reach the ground until just before the first Sabbath, and the hurry of camp-meeting preparations did not allow of the usual amount of study; and yet there was exhibited a good degree of familiarity with the lesson, and considerable enthusiasm in the work. We are glad to know that the interest in the Sabbath-school work in the State is increasing; that the real object of the school is being considered,—a thorough understanding of the Bible and the conversion of souls. A spirit of liberality is also being fostered, as was shown by the class contributions,—nearly fifty dollars. If all the schools in the State give as much proportionately every Sabbath, they will soon be amply supplied with every needed help, and will be able to do something in the missionary line.