This week we have sent delegates' certificates to all of our schools as far as we know, with the request that the full number of delegates be chosen from those who will be sure to attend the camp-meeting, at as early a time as possible. If any Superintendent fails to receive these blanks, please notify me at once.
Blanks have also been sent for this quarter's report. Let them be filled out and returned as soon as possible, that the general report may be made out before camp-meeting. E. A. CHAPMAN, Sec.
CALIFORNIA CAMP-MEETING.
The time and place of the coming camp-meeting now being definitely settled, our brethren have opportunity to form definite plans, and to make arrangements to attend it.
Elder Haskell will be present during the entire meeting, and will take charge of it. Those who were present at the camp-meeting last year need no further assurance that the coming meeting will be a success in so far as success depends on the management. Let all who come resolve to do their part towards the desired result. We hope that there will be a very general attendance of the churches and the scattered ones. Come, and bring your friends with you. We are looking forward with much interest to this meeting as an occasion of great benefit to the cause in California. "Come one, come all!"
PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S DEATH.
Just as we go to press, the sad news comes to us of the death of President Garfield. Seventy-nine days ago he was struck down by the bullet of an assassin, and since that time he has been engaged in a struggle for life, with the odds against him from the first. During all this time, an anxious people have been hoping against hope that a strong constitution, unimpaired by excesses, might enable him to recover. The reports for the past week led the people to give up hope; and yet, when the announcement of his death came, it came as a shock for which all were unprepared.
No event in the history of the nation has ever before caused such universal sorrow. After twenty years of active public life, no stain attaches to his name, and now that he has fallen at the very threshold of what promised to be a pure and wise administration, all, irrespective of place or party, feel a genuine grief. All feel that a great and good man has fallen. Not only does the nation mourn the loss of its chief magistrate, but the world mourns the loss of one of nature's noble men.
WINE OR WATER?
WE have not seen the question of wine or water drinking more forcibly put than it is in the article of Dr. Trumbull, which we copy in this number of the SIGNS. Of all the ridiculous excuses for gratifying one's appetite for liquor, that of impure water is about the weakest. The Doctor's arguments will apply equally well to tea and coffee. Men will talk about impure water, and evils arising from its use, and will then add to this same water a poison, which even if it were pure, is worse than any poisonous property which the water may possess, and drink the whole with a hearty relish. Whatever extravagances this generation may be addicted to, the jewel consistency does not materially swell the list.
MODEL SABBATH-SCHOOL.
By W. C. White
As is usual at our camp-meetings, there will be a Bible-school held each Sabbath of our meeting, at 8:45 A. M. All are invited to join the school.
Let every family bring their lesson books and papers with them. The lessons recited by the Primary Division will be as follows: First class, Lessons No. 29, and 30, in Book No. 1. Second class, Lessons No. 79 and 80, in Book No. 2. Third class, Lessons No. 27 and 28, in Book No. 3.
The Intermediate and Senior Divisions will use the regular lessons in the Youth's Instructor for those Sabbaths. W. C. WHITE.
THE quarterly meeting for District No. 4 will be held October 1, 2, at San Pasqual, San Diego Co., Cal. A general attendance is desired, especially of the scattered ones. Let all bring their reports, and the tithes of the Lord's house. This is the last quarter of the year, and all should come prepared to pay their vows, and make their offerings to the Lord. Bro. Healey is expected to be present. J. D. BANDY, Director.
CALIFORNIA S. S. ASSOCIATION.
By William Clarence White
The California Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath-school Association will hold its fourth annual session in connection with the camp-meeting at Sacramento, commencing Oct. 13. It is hoped that every school will send its full number of delegates. Each school of fifteen members or less is entitled to one delegate; one additional delegate for each additional fifteen members.
W. C. WHITE, Pres.
CALIFORNIA H. AND T. SOCIETY.
By Stephen Nelson Haskell
The second annual meeting of the California Health and Temperance Society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Sacramento, commencing Oct. 13, 1881. S. N. HASKELL, Pres.
CALIFORNIA STATE T. AND M. SOCIETY.
THE next annual meeting of the California T. and M. Society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Sacramento, commencing Oct. 13, 1881. As far as consistent all pledges to this society or the Reserve Fund should be paid at or before this meeting. All District Secretaries and Church Librarians are requested to bring their account books, that they may be audited.
S. N. HASKELL, Pres.
Appointments.
By Editor
CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE.
The tenth annual session of the California Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Sacramento, commencing Oct. 13, 1881. As this Conference will be as important a one as has ever been held in this State, there should be a full representation of delegates from every company of Seventh-day Adventists in the Conference. Every recognized church of fifteen or less members is entitled to one delegate; larger churches to one additional delegate for every additional fifteen members. Unorganized companies and isolated brethren and sisters should also be represented in person or by letter, so that the wants of the cause in the State may be clearly understood.
Conference business will be disposed of during the early part of the meeting; delegates are therefore requested to be on the ground at the first of the meeting. Also letters pertaining to Conference business should be forwarded to the Secretary, Eld. J. D. Rice, in time so that they can be duly considered, and such steps taken as will co-operate with the Spirit of God. We hope also that there will be promptness in paying tithes, as the Conference expenses of the past year have been unusually large, and all funds of this kind will be needed to meet them.
All ministers and licentiates should have their written reports of labor and expenses prepared to pass in at the first session. Church clerks and treasurers will please bring their books to the meeting.
S. N. HASKELL.
JOHN MORRISON.
M. C. ISRAEL.
Cal. Conf. Committee.
CALIFORNIA CAMP-MEETING.
The Northern Cal. camp-meeting will be held at Sacramento, commencing Oct. 13. Let all our brothers and sisters from all parts of the State make a special effort to come up to this feast of Tabernacles. We are nearing the ripening time of the harvest of the earth. We need the influence of the power and Spirit of God, that we may be able to overcome our tendencies to wrong-doing, and that the graces of the Spirit may be more fully matured, and we be in a condition to be perfected by the latter rain soon to be poured out. Come prepared to stay until the close of the meeting. Preparations will be made to supply the temporal wants of both man and beast.
G. D. HAGER,
E. J. CHURCH,
G. W. MILLS,
Camp-meeting Committee.
TENTS!
By M. C. Israel
THOSE who wish tents at the camp-meeting should order them at once, so that we can have them on the ground. M. C. ISRAEL.
FAMILY BIBLES.
A FINE assortment of elegant family Bibles, profusely illustrated, and containing Apocrypha, Concordance, Dictionary, and Maps, with other helps, specially selected by W. C. White while in the East, will shortly arrive, and will be offered at greatly reduced prices. There will be a supply at camp-meeting.
THE HOME HAND-BOOK.
By Editor
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GOOD HEALTH.
By Editor
J. H. KELLOGG, M. D., EDITOR.
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By Editor
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By Editor
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CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1881.
By Editor
MICHIGAN, Grand Ledge, Sept. 27 to Oct. 3
MISSURI, Warrensburg, " " " " "
KENTUCKY, October 5-11
TENNESSEE, " 13-18
CALIFORNIA, Sacramento, " 13-25