Earlier text: The Missionary Spirit—More than one-half of the lawyers of Berlin are Hebrews. —The public debt was reduced $14,238,324 during the month of March. —Five men were killed by a backing train, at Scranton, Pa., on the 3d inst. —A Berlin dispatch says the emperor has consented to the retirement of Bismarck. —The President of the Mormon Church took five wives to the Patti concert at Salt Lake. —A colony of twenty-five families are booked for Washington Territory from Pittsburg, Pa. —Rumor says that a Cuban filibustering expedition has been organized at Key West, Fla. —It is now Austria's turn to complain that her socialism is encouraged by anarchists in America. —The Bennet-Mackay Atlantic cable is expected to reach Cape Ann, Mass., about the middle of this month. —The California State Controller is resurrecting deficiencies in the accounts of past officials, going back as far as 1871. —The number of killed and wounded in the Cincinnati riot is estimated at 200. The latest report is that fifty are dead. —The steamer Daniel Steinman, from Antwerp, was wrecked off Sambro, Nova Scotia, on the 4th inst., and 129 lives lost. —The Indians of the United States hold land enough to give each a large farm, and then have as much more as a common patrimony. —Cremation is gaining favor in England. The city authorities of London have decided to establish a crematory at Ilford, a suburb of the East End. —The editor of a comic journal in Madrid has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for publishing an offensive caricature of King Alfonso. —A revolutionary printing office has been discovered at Kieff, Russia. Seven persons were arrested on charges of being connected with the office. —The Parnell branch of the Irish National League has passed a resolution condemning Michael Davitt for inviting Henry George to lecture at Dublin. —The latest news from the peace prospects of Europe is to the effect that Germany is enlarging her frontier defenses. A few weeks ago they were to be curtailed. —The latest reports from the Soudan are discouraging for General Gordon. He has about given up the peace programme, and has not troops enough to adopt any other plan. —At Laporte, Pa., on the 1st inst., four men engaged in a game of cards which resulted in a quarrel and the death of three of the party, the fourth being badly wounded. —A steamer and valuable cargo of cotton were burned at Fitzgerald Landing, Ga., on the Chattahoochee River, on the 3d inst. Of thirty passengers, thirteen were missing. —A number of Chinamen are landing at the Pacific ports in Mexico, and working their way inland. It is expected they will soon begin to enter the United States by way of the frontier. —The coming presidential campaign is beginning to assume space in the news of the day; in a short time it will be the principal topic, excepting of course the criminal news, which always leads.239 —Mormon influence is rapidly gaining ground in Idaho. In the last Legislature they had ten of the thirty-six members. Ten years ago they had one. An effort is being made to have Congress redistrict the Territory so as to neutralize the Mormon strength. —At Belleville, Ill., last week a switchman left his post and went into a saloon to get a drink. As a result of leaving an open switch, a car of a passing train was thrown down the embankment, killing one man, and injuring twenty-nine others, some of whom will die. —A raging fire is reported in the pine forests of North Carolina, extending about fifty miles between Raleigh and the South Carolina line. It was carried along by a heavy wind-storm. Turpentine distilleries, as well as large quantities of resin and other stores were destroyed. The Raleigh and Augusta Railroad runs many miles through the burned district. —A Chinaman serving a term in the San Francisco city prison for keeping an opium den, has petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that the offense is not mentioned in the Penal Code of the State, and is therefore not an offense. Of course some sharp lawyer sees money in this plea, if it can be made to stand, and would care nothing for the results otherwise. —Intelligence has reached St. Paul of great distress among the Indians at the Poplar River Agency, and an outbreak is not improbable. Although money has been appropriated by Congress for their relief, red tape will probably cause a delay of several months in its reaching them. A missionary at Poplar River writes: "From six to eight die every week from starvation. The white people have given them all the spare clothing they have, yet hundreds of them are nearly naked. Scores of them are sick with pneumonia and other diseases brought on by exposure, and with nothing to eat." —A Rome correspondent reports an archbishop as saying that the pope holds the Vatican only on sufferance, and at any moment might be ejected. He added, "We may yet ask hospitality of the United States." A dispatch of the 3d inst. reports that there was an agreement between the pope and the queen that the papal organ was to cease attacks on the king, and the latter was to procure a favorable judgment in the matter of the Vatican property. Now, considering the adverse judgment, the pope feels that he has been trifled with. There is quite a sensation in Europe on the subject, and strong notes have been sent to the Government from different powers, especially Germany and France, which augur a reaction in favor of the pope. —The Christian Union presents a suggestive diagram showing the relative annual expenditures in this country for certain articles and purposes, based on the census of 1880. By far the largest amount is for intoxicating liquors—$900,000,000. The next item is bread, $505,000,000. Then follows meat, $305,000,000. After this in regular order is, iron and steel, $290,000,000; woolen goods, $237,000,000; sawed lumber, $232,000,000; cotton goods, $210,000,000; boots and shoes, $196,000,000; sugar and molasses, $155,000,000; public education, $85,000,000; Christian missions, $5,500,000. It takes away the disposition to boast of our "great nation" to reflect that the whisky bill is greater than the expenditure for bread, meat, education, and Christian missions combined. Truly our people are great drinkers, and the missionary spirit seems almost insignificant as compared with other interests. —Cyclones were reported on the 2d and 3d insts., in various parts of the country. In the Monongahela Valley, Pa., much property was destroyed and several persons injured—four reported killed. Another storm in the vicinity of Reynoldsville, O., blowing down many buildings and killing stock. Another passed through Honey and Blackford Counties, Ind., doing much damage to property, and killing six adults and a babe, as far as heard from. Others were badly injured, some being carried many rods by the wind. A Huntsville, Ala., dispatch also reports a fearful storm in that vicinity, greatly damaging timber and other property. Two women were killed at one house, and a babe was blown so far that it was not found till the next day; but it was still alive. Other parties are reported injured. And the tidings come from South Carolina, of a hurricane wrecking a railroad depot and other buildings at Camden; also that the town of Timmonsville was nearly destroyed, several persons killed, and many injured; also the town of Rockville in another part of the State, was said to be suffering from a violent storm and fire. This is the most extensive storm record of the season. —It is estimated that seven thousand books and pamphlets on Luther appeared last year in Germany alone. —Dr. Ezra Abbot, of Harvard Divinity School and a prominent member of the American committee on the revision of the New Testament, is dead. —Michael Dunn, founder of the Home for Discharged Convicts, in Houston Street, New York, is organizing a similar institution in San Francisco. —Bishop H. H. Kavanaugh, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at Columbus, Miss., on the morning of the 19th ult., at the age of eighty-three. —The New York Examiner decides that a Baptist minister who teaches the annihilation of the wicked should be excluded from denominational fellowship. —The queen of Tahiti, now in Europe, and ready to return, is in dread of that part of the home journey which lies through America, on account of the newspaper reporters. —A letter from Asia Minor states that authorized agents of the Turkish Government are attempting to close the Protestant schools conducted by American missionaries. —Bishop O'Connor, of Omaha, announces his ultimatum to the effect that he will allow no more "dispensations" between Catholics and non-Catholics in the diocese of Nebraska. —The fourth International Sunday-school Convention for the United States and British North America Provinces will be held in the city of Louisville, Ky., on June 11, 12, and 13. —The Catholic Directory for 1884 reports that the number of churches, stations, and schools in Scotland and England were increased fifty-one per cent. during the previous twelve months. —There is a strong feeling among the miners in the vicinity of Mahoney City, Pa., against the Hungarian cheap labor recently imported, and trouble is expected if employment is given to this class. —Some of the Presbyterians of England and Scotland are feeling the need of a "modified form of liturgy." Some have hinted that this is a "bridge leading over to the Church of England." And thence? —In the course of Joseph Cook's remarks upon the new Congregational creed, he says: "Only a general and profound revival of religious life can effectually counteract the present perils of the Congregational churches." —Mrs. Georgiana Miller attended a prayer-meeting at the Missionary Rooms, Chicago, recently, and at the end of a prayer remained kneeling in a fixed position. On going to arouse her it was found that she had died of heart disease. —A young lady, a member of a Baptist Church in New Jersey, refused an offer of $1,500 a year to sing in a Unitarian Church, because she would not lend assistance in that way to those who not only deny the divinity of our Lord, but are teaching others to deny it. —The Christian Church seems to me to be still full of Ephesian Christians, who, if the truth were known, have hardly so much as heard that there is a Holy Ghost.—Lyman Abbott. That would be all right, if, like the Ephesian Christians, after knowing they would accept and follow its direction. —The Catholic bishop of Montreal does not view with favor the exodus of French Canadians to the United States. He has issued a pastoral detailing in vivid terms the spiritual and other dangers to which the exiles are exposed. He strongly urges their repatriation, and favors their colonization in suitable districts in their native province. —A new and interesting fragment, written on papyrus, of a New Testament MS. has been brought to light. It is a single leaf written on both sides, in so-called minuscule cursive letters. It was found at Fayyuni and is now the property of Theodore, Count of Wien. Experts suppose it to be a production of the sixth century. One side contains Luke 6:36-44, and the other Luke 10:38-42. —Mr. Spurgeon's jubilee, in June next, has already begun to excite much interest, and will be an event in which most of the nonconformist churches are likely to take part. A special fund is in contemplation, though the exact object toward which it will be devoted is not yet announced. The church at present numbers 5,300 persons, and overtaxes the sitting accommodations of the tabernacle. —A visitor to Mr. Moody's Home at Northfield, Mass., gives a glowing account of the success of his boys' schools. She states that five new brick edifices bought and dedicated just before Mr. Moody returned to England last fall, are now filled with boys gathered from the North, East, South, and West. Nearly all nationalities are represented by these seventy-five lads, ranging in age from eight to sixteen. A few of them may have homes, and friends who support them here, but by far the greater number have no homes and few friends, save those who have been raised up to them through the school. Some come from homes broken up by the demon drink; others have been "picked up" in the streets of our large cities; but all alike find a friend in the large-hearted founder of the school, whom they love and reverence as they would a father. In No. 1 house, called "The English House," are the twelve English orphan boys Mr. Moody picked up in Manchester and Liverpool. AGENTS AND FOREIGN BRANCH OFFICES.
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THE meetings in Oakland will begin April 18, and continue ten days, the annual meeting of the Publishing Association being April 28. We expect to have the best meeting that has ever been held in this city. Bible-readings, social meetings, missionary meetings, and preaching, will all come in, and the meetings cannot fail to be both interesting and profitable. In addition to those who have labored in the meetings in this State, Elders St. John and Loughborough will be here to assist in this. We think that things in Oakland are in a better condition than they ever were before to insure a good meeting. Both in the church and out, the interest in the truth is unusually good. Last Sabbath the number attending Sabbath-school was larger than the whole number enrolled during the last quarter; and the number present at the ordinances was from twenty-five to thirty more than was ever before present at any similar meeting. The number of interested inquirers in this city was never so great as at present. The church sends a cordial invitation for friends of the cause to come in and worship with us in the coming meeting. Steps will immediately be taken to provide accommodations for all who come. Especially is invitation given to those who intend to labor as colporters, canvassers for our publications, or in any other capacity in this work; also to the stockholders in the Publishing Association. Come, come early, and come to stay till the close. Inducements to Agents.
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THE experience of those who have been working to increase the circulation of the Signs during the winter of 1883-84 has been very encouraging. There is power in the truth, and the Present Truth, printed weekly in the Signs of the Times, will move the people, if it is read continuously. One subscriber obtained is of more real value than many papers given away, and will cost less. Therefore, to induce all our friends to engage in the work of increasing the number of paying subscribers to the Signs, we make the following liberal offers:— FOR FIVE NEW SUBSCRIBERS we will mail a copy of either of the following choice books: "The Biblical Institute," "The History of the Waldenses," illustrated, "Geikie's Life of Christ," "Life and Epistles of St. Paul," the New Testament—revised version—American edition, "Sketches from the Life of Paul," by Mrs. E. G. White; or the new edition of "United States in Prophecy," by Eld. Uriah Smith. FOR SIX NEW SUBSCRIBERS we will give you your choice of the following: Blunt's "Coincidences" and Paley's "Evidences;" "The Story of the Bible;" "Pilgrim's Progress," (Porter & Coates' 16-mo. illustrated); "Thoughts on Daniel;" "Palestine for the Young;" "Thoughts on Revelation;" The "Comparative New Testament;" The "Schonberg-Cotta Family;" "The Giant Cities of Bashan and Syria's Holy Places," or "The Coming Conflict," new edition. FOR TWELVE NEW SUBSCRIBERS your choice of "The Fables of Infidelity;" D'Aubigne's "History of the Reformation," (complete in one volume); Whiston's "Josephus," (Porter & Coates' edition, price $3.00); Cruden's Complete Concordance;" Geikie's "Life of Christ," (large print edition), or "Sabbath Readings," (in four volumes). When prizes are sent by mail, postage will be charged. Your choice of either of the premium books, "Geikie's Life of Christ," "Sketches from the Life of Paul," by Mrs. E. G. White, or Conybeare and Howson's "Life and Epistles of St. Paul," will be sent to each new subscriber when $2.25 is received. The prizes will be furnished by the party to whom the subscriptions are sent. Thus all persons doing business through the Tract Society, will receive their prizes from the State Secretary of said society. Any person working for a prize must state his intention when the first subscriptions are sent, that an account may be kept of the names. If any donate their labor and do not claim a prize, it will benefit their Tract Society to the value of the prize. Canvasser's outfit, comprising a premium book, circulars, blank receipt book, order sheets, and suggestions on canvassing, will be furnished by mail post-paid for $1.00. Address, Signs of the Times, Oakland, Cal. THIS is a pamphlet of only 84 pages, but its value is not to be judged by its size. It is just what its title indicates: a faithful presentation of Bible truth on this important subject, and an exposure of the false theories prevailing in regard to it. Every believer in Bible truth should read it. Buy it, read it, and lend it to your neighbor. Price, 10 cents. Address, Signs of the Times, Oakland, Cal. AN EXAMINATION OF THE ACTION, SUBJECTS, AND RELATIONS OF THE ORDINANCE OF BAPTISM. Also, a Brief Refutation of the
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MISSION rooms have been opened at 618 Beaumont Street, St. Louis, Mo., N. W. Allen, Superintendent. We shall be pleased to hear from all our city missionaries occasionally. A CARD on business received from North Carolina says: "We have been reading the SIGNS and other publications a little over twelve months, and twelve are keeping the Sabbath in this county. Please send me all the back numbers of SIGNS you can spare, for general distribution."