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OAKLAND, CAL.
Business Department.
“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully,” (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.
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Appointments.
OAKLAND—Services at the new church, on the corner of Thirteenth and Clay streets, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 10:30 A.M., and Sunday evening at 7:30. Prayer-meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. Sabbath-school at 9 o'clock Sabbath morning.
SAN FRANCISCO—Services at the house of worship, on Laguna street, between Tyler and McAllister, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11 A. M., and first-day evening at 7:30. Prayer-meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. The Hayes Valley cars of Market street and the Lone Mountain cars of the Central R. R. cross Laguna street near the church.
I WILL attend the quarterly meeting at San Jose, June 16 and 17.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Camp-Meetings for 1877.
CAMP-MEETINGS are located and appointed as follows:—
MINNESOTA, Hutchinson, June 20–26.
INDIANA, Aug. 9–14.
OHIO, Newark (probably), " 10–20.
VERMONT, " 16–21.
ILLINOIS, " 23–28.
CALIFORNIA, Yountville, September 16–19.
" Tulare county, Sept. 26 to Oct. 1.
This Week's Paper.
By Editor
The present number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES will find its way into more than two hundred families where previous numbers have never been sent, and during the month just past twelve hundred new subscribers have been received at this Office. To these new readers we wish to say that it is, and ever will be, the aim of those who conduct the SIGNS to fill its columns with the most interesting and instructive moral and religious reading matter that can be found.
As will be seen at first glance, we admit no advertisements which are so commonly seen even in religious papers, and put in their place articles which cannot fail, if properly read and studied, to throw light upon the Scriptures, and cause them to shine forth in all their clearness and strength.
We call special attention to the articles which are appearing from week to week upon the first and second pages of the paper. Those on the first page, from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White, are written in a style which will interest all, and are full of new ideas concerning the life and mission of Christ. They should be read with care.
Those on the second page, under the title, "The Biblical Institute," by Elder Uriah Smith, are doctrinal in their nature, and will contain a brief synopsis of what we as Seventh-day Adventists believe. These articles could be read and re-read to great profit. Several have already appeared in the SIGNS and if any are desirous of obtaining them they can do so by sending to this Office.
The editorial pages will speak for themselves when read. The sixth and seventh pages contain matter which is well suited to the wants of the home circle. The two stories on the sixth page will do any one good who reads them, being suited to all ages, and calculated to better prepare them to bear the duties and responsibilities of life. The news items also are selected with great care from numerous exchanges and deserve a careful reading.
We are glad to see that the SIGNS' circle of acquaintances is so rapidly enlarging, and we trust that wherever it goes it will make strong and lasting friends to the truths which it advocates. M. M. W.
North Pacific Mission.
By I. D. Van Horn
Our tent meeting in Dallas, Polk Co., Oregon, has now been in progress a little more than two weeks. The interest has been increasing from the beginning. Yesterday, June 3, we had three good meetings with apparent good results. The congregations were larger than at any previous time during our meetings. I believe the blessing of God is attending the word. We expect that a small company of commandment keepers will be raised up who will represent the cause of present truth in this place.
We have traced down most of the lines of prophecy with good effect, and are now examining the third angel's message, law, and Sabbath questions. The people seem to receive these subjects well. Some books are taken, showing a disposition on their part to investigate.
Last Friday, June 1, I left the tent in the care of Bro. Jones, and went to Salem to spend the Sabbath. We enjoyed a blessed season with the Salem church. The Sabbath-school at 10 o'clock was interesting and well attended. We spoke to them at 11 o'clock with our usual freedom on the signs, troubles and perils of the last day. All felt the need of getting nearer the Lord that they might have his protection in time of danger.
At the close of the discourse the way was opened for all who wished to unite with the church to come forward. Five readily responded. One of these, a Catholic lady of intelligence, was baptized. The church now numbers thirty-two. They are preparing to enter into the T. and M. work and will be ready to organize a society in a few weeks. May the Lord speed on the work.
I. D. VAN HORN.
Dallas, Oregon, June 4, 1877.
Still Onward.
By John Norton Loughborough
The past week has been one of some advancement to our cause in California. The monthly missionary meeting held in San Francisco on the evening of June 5, was full of interest, and well attended. The efforts put forth are telling for the advancement of the truth. Six have signed the covenant there during the last month, and others still are becoming interested.
In our visit to Lafayette we found the few there making some advancement in overcoming such idols as tobacco, etc. Brn. Rice and A. Brorsen are at Pacheco, Contra Costa Co., with tent No. 3, where they commence meetings this week.
Brn. Wood and Howard report from tent No. 2, that they are holding meetings in two different neighborhoods six miles apart, one in the tent and one in a large school-house. They are thus canvassing a section of country about five miles wide and eleven miles long. Excellent interest is manifested and the prospects are fair. J. N. L.
Dixon, Cal.
By W. H. Healey; B. A. Stephens
Tent No. 1, has been in this place five weeks. Nine meetings have been held each week. Our congregations have averaged not far from one hundred. Several are keeping the commandments of God, and there is a fair prospect of others coming out soon. W. H. Healey,
June 10, 1877. B. A. Stephens.
Intense Heat.
The weather during the past week has been uncommonly hot for this State. By comparing the records of previous years it was found that Monday was the hottest day known in San Francisco for twenty-seven years, the thermometer going as high as 99°. In Oakland the thermometer stood at 102° in the shade, while in many towns of the interior it ranged from 100° to 120°.
Last Tuesday there were six cases of sun-stroke in Santa Rosa, one in Petaluma which proved fatal the same day, and one in Vallejo. Our hottest summers are usually those which are preceded by dry winters, as the less snow there is deposited in the Sierras the greater the heat in the lower countries. There is said to be less snow upon the mountains now than at any corresponding time for many years. Hence Californians are anticipating a continuation of hot weather in the interior till late in the fall.
Are Roman Catholics United?
By Dudley Marvin Canright
CATHOLICS are constantly pointing to the divisions and disputes among Protestants, and contrasting this with the unity and oneness which they assert everywhere exists among Catholics. But this is a false claim. Divisions, contentions, and fierce and heated disputes have always existed, and do now exist, among them. True, they all belong to one church and one communion; but this is about the extent of their unity.
The following facts I gather from Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, vol. 3, pp. 106–108:—
1. They are divided respecting the extent and prerogatives of the church.
2. They are divided respecting the nature, operation, and necessity of divine grace.
3. They are divided respecting original sin, the natural power of man to obey the divine law.
4. They are divided respecting the nature of God's eternal decrees in regard to the salvation of men.
5. They are divided respecting many points of morality and rules of conduct.
6. They are divided respecting the administration of the sacraments.
7. They are divided respecting the right method of training Christians.
This list might be extended indefinitely if we were to notice as small points as often make disputes and divisions among Protestants; so that really the Catholics can claim no superiority in this respect.
D. M. CANRIGHT.
WORKING CHEAP.—
“What does Satan pay you for swearing?” asked one gentleman of another. “He don’t pay me anything,” was the reply. “Well, you work cheap; to lay aside the character of a gentleman; to inflict so much pain on your friends and civil people; and lastly, to risk your own precious soul—and for nothing. You certainly do work cheap—very cheap, indeed.”
The Soul’s Desires
As well try to fill the yawning chasm with a few grains of sand, as satisfy the gulf of soul's desires with the pleasure of an empty world.
A Grave Without a Monument.—
The sea is the largest of cemeteries, and all its slumberers sleep without a monument. All other grave-yards, in all lands, show some symbols of distinction between the great and the small, the rich and the poor, but in that great ocean cemetery the king and the clown, the prince and the peasant, are alike undistinguished. The same wave rolls over all, the same requiem by the minstrelsy of the ocean is sung to their honor. Over their remains the same storms beat, and the same sun shines; and there, unmarked, the weak and the powerful, the plumed and the unhonored, will sleep on, until awakened by the same trump, the sea will give up its dead. No marble rises to point out where their ashes are gathered. Yet that cemetery hath ornaments of which no other can boast. On no other are the heavenly orbs reflected in such splendor. Over no other is heard such noble melody.
The Praise of Men
If you act from the motive of obtaining the praise of men, disappointment is the best thing that could befall you. “How can you believe, who receive honor one of another?”
State Quarterly Meeting.
By A. M. LOUGHBOROUGH
The third State Quarterly Meeting of the Cal. Tract and Missionary Society, for this fiscal year, will be held with the Oakland church, Sabbath and Sunday, July 7 and 8. We hope to see as many of the directors, officers, and members present as can possibly attend.
By order of the President.
A. M. LOUGHBOROUGH, Secretary.
District Quarterly Meetings.
By John Norton Loughborough
THE district quarterly meetings in California for the third quarter will be held as follows:—
DISTRICT No. 1, at Santa Rosa, June 23 and 24.
DISTRICT No. 2, at Fairview, Fresno Co., June 23 and 24.
DISTRICT No. 3, at St. Helena, June 30 and July 1.
DISTRICT No. 4, at San Pasqual, June 23 and 24.
DISTRICT No. 5, at Woodland, June 23 and 24.
DISTRICT No. 6, where Bro. Disher may appoint, June 23 and 24.
DISTRICT No. 7, at Oakland, July 7 and 8.
DISTRICT No. 8, at San Jose, June 16 and 17.
DISTRICT No. 9, at San Francisco, June 23 and 24. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, President.