p. 511 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 32. (8/18/1887)

Appointments.

NEBRASKA CAMP-MEETING.

It is now decided that this important meeting will be held September 13-20. The place selected is Grand Island, which is easy of access for our people from all parts of the State. This being the only camp-meeting held in this State the present season, it will, no doubt, be the largest we have ever had.

This has been a very prosperous year for the work in our State, and we believe that both workers and people will come up to this annual gathering with hearts filled with courage and gratitude to God. In connection with this meeting

A WORKERS' CONVENTION

Will be held, commencing Tuesday, August 30, and continuing till the close of the camp-meeting. Special instruction will be given, during this time, in the canvassing and Bible-reading work. We hope to see a very large attendance during this drill, as the opportunity for learning to engage in the work will be excellent. Elder Geo. B. Starr and F. E. Belden are expected to give instruction in these two very important branches of the work.

About the same programme will be followed at the workers' meeting as is observed at our city missions. The forenoon of each day will be spent in class drill, while the afternoons will be spent in actual work among the people.

Tents will be pitched to accommodate all who may attend. Those attending may bring their bedding and board themselves if they choose, or several can club together and board the same as at the mission. In either way the expense will not exceed $2.00 per week, and may be made less. Come, brethren, and let us keep pace with the message, let us learn the best and most approved plans of advancing the truth. More particulars will be given soon.

J. P. GARDINER, A. J. CUDNEY, L. A. HOOPES. } Conf. Com.

Publishers' Department.

By Editor

OUR GENERAL AGENTS.

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VINDICATION OF THE TRUE SABBATH.

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MODERN SPIRITUALISM

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ITS NATURE AND TENDENCY.

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BIBLE SANCTIFICATION:

A CONTRAST OF

TRUE AND FALSE THEORIES.

BY MRS. E. G. WHITE.

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OUR COUNTRY—THE MARVEL OF NATIONS.

By Uriah Smith

ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, AND WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAY OF IT.

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HISTORY OF THE SABBATH

By John Nevins Andrews

AND FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.

BY ELD. J. N. ANDREWS.

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By CHAS. C. RAMSEY, A. M., Principal

SOUTH LANCASTER, MASS.

AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF INCREASING POPULARITY.

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By Editor

AN EIGHT-PAGE MONTHLY JOURNAL,

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Can Good Come Out of Evil?

We sometimes hear the expression used that "good may come out of evil." This is very true, if we use the word "evil" in the sense of trouble, and not in the sense of sin. Affliction and trouble are often called evil, and in this sense good may come out of evil, "for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Again we read that "tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope;" and that chastisement which at the time is very grievous, afterwards yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them who are exercised thereby. And again, that "all things work together for good to them that love God." But from evil which is sin no good can possibly come. Sin has no manner of connection with good. From sin only sin can come. So none need console themselves with the thought, if they have done wrong, that good may come out of it. There is mercy for the sinner, and where sin abounds, grace does much more abound, and so good may come after evil, if the sinner exercises repentance towards God, and faith in his Son Jesus Christ. But the good can come only after the sin has been put away, and it comes not because of the evil, but in spite of it. "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid."

Dr. McGlynn and Rome

By Editor

NEARLY every Protestant paper in the country, whether religious or secular, has confessed it to have been the duty of Dr. McGlynn to go to Rome when he was commanded by the Pope to do so, to answer for his opinions that were already condemned. The truth is, that if he had gone to Rome, he could, and no doubt would, have been kept there forever, and that too in a dungeon, just as likely as not, unless he should have recanted. And even had he recanted he would never have been allowed to return to free America. The chances are ten to one that had Dr. McGlynn gone to Rome he would never have been directly heard of more. The Christian Advocate (N. Y.) has come nearer to the truth in the matter than any other paper we have seen. It says:—

"Once in Rome he could have been kept there indefinitely. He could be assigned to duty in any part of the world; could be cut loose from his life-work, and removed from all his associations and centers of influence, and be compelled to begin a new career under a ban."

But Dr. McGlynn knows Rome's methods too well to be caught in the toils of the Romish Inquisition, and he still breathes the free air of yet free America. But how long America shall remain free from Rome's pernicious power is a question. With the National Reform party and its allies endeavoring to create a constitutional basis for religious legislation in national affairs, and bidding for Rome's influence to help secure it; and with the press of the country siding with Rome in a controversy involving the right of free thought and free speech of an American citizen; the prospect is not very reassuring.

CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1887.

MINNESOTA, Waseca, Sept. 1-6 NEVADA, Reno, " 1-12 COLORADO, Greeley, " 6-13 WEST VIRGINIA, " 6-13 NEW YORK, Utica, " 6-13 NEBRASKA, Grand Island, " 13-20 KANSAS, Emporia, " 15-25 MICHIGAN, Grand Rapids, " 20-27 MINNESOTA, Fergus Falls, " 21-27 MISSOURI, Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 INDIANA, Indianapolis, Oct. 4-14 CALIFORNIA, State meeting, Oakland, " 6-17 KENTUCKY, " 11-18 TENNESSEE, " 18-25

Evangelistic Meetings in Oakland and San Francisco

By Editor

The tent-meetings in Oakland are still being carried on by Elders Corliss and Owen. The tent has now been pitched the third time in this city this season. About twenty embraced the truth from the first two efforts. Meetings have now been held one week at the third place, with much the best interest of all. The tent is well filled each evening with an intelligent and deeply interested audience.

Elder E. P. Daniels is conducting a series of meetings in the San Francisco church. The church itself is being greatly benefited, and the outside interest is good. We are glad that these two great centers of travel and population are having such a benefit this season. With these efforts of the brethren crowned with the annual State camp-meeting, we earnestly hope to see great good accomplished.

Waggoners Attend Humboldt County Camp-Meeting

ELDER E. J. WAGGONER, and Mrs. Jessie F. Waggoner, the Secretary of the State Sabbath-school Association, left Oakland August 10, for Eureka, Cal., to attend the Humboldt County camp-meeting.

Prussia’s Surrender to Rome

Prussia's hobnobbing with the Papacy has begun already to bear the unfailing fruit of a legal recognition of Romanism. A Lutheran minister in Prussia was recently sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for "insulting" the Romish Church. The insult consisted in publishing a pamphlet in which he remarked that the Romish apostasy is "built upon superstition and idolatry." And for such "insulting" remarks as this, to prison for nine months their author had to go. And this in the land of Luther! Let Prussia be called no more a Protestant country. She has been surrendered bodily to the Papacy, and Rome rules there, and that in Rome's own wicked way.

Law Cannot Make Men Moral

By Editor

An exchange says:—

"The law cannot make a man moral, but it can make him dreadfully uncomfortable when he is immoral."

Well, that depends. It is true that the law cannot make a man moral; but if it is the law of the land that is referred to, as we suppose it is, then we know that a man may be terribly immoral without suffering the least inconvenience from the law. The trouble is, people have a very low standard of morality. If a man does no open violence, or cause any serious inconvenience to his neighbor, he is called a moral man; whereas, a man may do nothing for which the law could molest him, and still be as corrupt as the grave. It should be understood that civil laws cannot make men moral, and are not for the purpose of punishing immorality, but simply for the purpose of protecting the rights of people; in short, to deter men from acting in an uncivil manner.

The Train Robbery Engineer

By Editor

REMARKING on the late train robbery on the Southern Pacific Railroad, the San Francisco Chronicle says the robbers were successful "mainly, it would seem, because of the lack of resistance on the part of the engineer." Now as the Chronicle's own report in the same paper says that the robbers had turned the switch which threw the engine off the track, turned it over, and threw the engineer and firemen down an embankment fifty feet, we are rather inclined to think the engineers "lack of resistance" to the robbers was justifiable, and that the Chronicle is extravagant in its demands. If the editor of the Chronicle was in charge of an engine which should be upset by robbers and he thrown fifty feet down a bank, we have an idea that just at that particular moment even his resistance to the attacking robbers would not be particularly vigorous nor exceptionally gallant. "It would seem" so at least. The Chronicle went a long way to find something to find fault with.

Mrs. Logan’s Serious Injuries

About the middle of July, Mrs. Logan, the widow of Gen. John A. Logan, was thrown from a buggy. The first dispatches stated that she was not seriously hurt, but a late report from her physician shows it to have been a very painful accident. He says:

"Mrs. Logan's injuries are very serious. On the 25th ult., for the first time since the injury, she was turned upon her right side, with soft pads under her injured left arm. Her left shoulder was crushed by the wheel of the buggy running over it. The whole arm to the elbow is blackened from bruises, and the forearm to the wrist is slightly injured. Her head was stepped upon on its top and left side, the horse's shod foot tearing the scalp loose in a concentric shape, making a wound three and a half inches in length to the skull. The skull is uninjured. She has suffered exceeding pain at the shoulder and along the course of the arm. We rejoice to say she is improving in every respect."

Can the Dead Perceive Earthly Events?

By Editor

The Inquiry columns of the religious papers furnish some rather queer matter occasionally. Here is a question and answer that appeared in the Christian Advocate of August 4—J. M. Buckley, D. D., editor:—

Q. 2435.—Can the dead perceive what is going on upon the earth? A.—If we knew, we should hasten to publish the information, for we should be the only possessor of it on earth. P. S. The Bible says that there is joy in the presence of the angels in Heaven over the conversion of sinners, but no details are given as to how the information reaches them.

"If we knew." But why is it that he does not know? The Bible says as plainly as language can be expressed, "The dead know not anything . . . neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun." And again, "His sons come to honor and he knoweth it not; they are brought low and he perceiveth it not of them." Here then is this correspondent's question directly and plainly answered, but the Advocate can only answer, "If we knew." Again we say, Why is it that the editor does not know? Is it because he does not know that these verses are in the Bible? or is it because he does not believe these words even though they be the word of God? We are inclined to think it is the latter, because the doctrine of the immortality of the soul does not allow a consistent belief of the words of the Bible.

So much for the Advocate's "answer;" but what is meant by the "P. S."? A correspondent asks, "Can the dead perceive what is going on upon the earth?" and he is informed that "There is joy in the presence of the angels in Heaven over the conversion of sinners." Does the Advocate mean to convey the idea that dead people are angels? or that the company of the angels is made up of dead people? What a queer idea that questioner must have had, in the first place, to ask, "Can the dead perceive?" If a person can perceive at all, it seems to us that that would be pretty good evidence that he is not dead.

Church Members and True Converts

By Editor

A RELIGIOUS exchange says: "Unless the churches in the United States gain as much as ten million members during the year 1887, there will be more unconverted people among us January, 1888, than there are now." There probably will be anyway; for unconverted people are coming to this country, as well as growing up in this country, continually, and, unfortunately, the making of church members is not necessarily equivalent to the making of converts.