p. 360 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 45. (9/16/1875)

Earlier text: THE NAMES AND UNCHANGED ORDER OF THE DAYS OF THE WEEK IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

-The harvest is now over in Denmark and Sweden. The quality and quantity of the wheat is greatly above the average.

-The Prince of Wales will start for India on the 17th of October, and his visit will last six months. The expenditure to insure the necessary pomp and dignity will be about $710,000.

-Seven thousand women and children are now fugitives in Croatia, in consequence of the Herzegovinian insurrection. The insurrectionists have burned the towns of Tocuiza and Rorito.

-Two companies of Mennonites numbering in all 350, marched through Wall and Broad streets Aug. 23, to the banking office of Greenbaum Brothers & Co., had their drafts cashed, and started in the evening for their new homes in the West.

-A riot of some magnitude has been kept up for several days in Montreal, over the burial of a Mr. Gubard in the Catholic cemetery. His burial in their cemetery was offensive to the Catholics who rose to arms and threatened to make a bonfire of the remains if the burial is again attempted. They laugh at the idea that, because the burial is according to law, they must submit to it.

-The terrible fatality which swept away so many of the Fiji Islanders, and which grew out of an epidemic of measles, has, says the Alaska Herald, broken out in that region, and is spreading with alarming rapidity. It is confined to adults. At Kodiak, Woody Island, Allovia, and Eagle Harbor, the ravages of the epidemic have been fearful. The disease is known as the black measles.

-Superintendent Leach, of the providence public schools, is among the first of the teachers who are following where physiologists have led. He says, "To educate the mind when the body is in a nervous, feeble condition, is a fruitless and useless task. The first thing to be sought is a sound body with physical vigor. This should take the precedence of everything else; without this, any acquisition can be of little avail."

-Professor Hitchcock of Amherst College has prepared tables concerning a man's expectation of life, showing that the mortality of intemperate people is five times as great as that of temperate persons. In 100,000 it had been found that 16,000 intemperate people died to 4,000 temperate. He also calls attention to the effects of temperance on posterity, showing that almost all imbeciles were the children of intemperate parents. Science of Health.

-The school question—in other words the question of sectarian instruction in the public schools—is the all important question in the pending election in Ohio. The Democratic party has taken an attitude friendly to the views of the Catholics; but Protestants will come to this issue regretfully; they will not tamely submit to the subversion of the common-school system; and if Catholics take the question to the polls, Protestants will meet them there.

-Have communities any right, by legal process, or, speaking more correctly, by force, to deprive any man of such intelligence as he may chance to possess? The people of some of our States seem to answer in the affirmative. We are told that in the Iowa Penitentiary the prisoners are not allowed to read anything that will give them any information of what is going on outside of the prison walls, and we know of at least one other prison where only old newspapers reach the prisoners.

-The license system is manifestly a "success" in the State of Connecticut. A recent number of the Hartford Times reported that "on Tuesday there were seen on a wharf in that city no fewer than sixteen children, between the ages of four and eight years, all drunk!" They had, it is said, obtained access to some of the vile liquor of the dram-shops and drank enough to set them crazy drunk or helpless. "Some," it is added, "were weakly trying to stab each other with such weapons as they could reach." And Connecticut is, forsooth, a Christian commonwealth!

A Colossal Image.—In a Jaunt in Japan, by Mr Bassett of the United States Navy, we find the following interesting account of a statue of Buddha: "Threading the narrow streets our guide led us up a deep wooded ravine by a broad, leafy path. Suddenly there burst upon our view one of the most remarkable works of man that it has been my fortune to see. Securely embowered in the tall trees, in sight of the waves of the Pacific, is erected an enormous statue, in bronze, of Buddha, the Japanese divinity. It is in a sitting posture, with the arms resting in the lap in front, and is fifty feet in height from the stone platform, to which a flight of nine stone steps leads. Around the head are rows of enormous cockle shells, exemplifying the tradition that these animals sheltered the divinity from the heat of the sun. As an art expression of the ideal, the execution is wonderful. The typical state of complete rest and contemplation, which all good Buddhists hope to attain, is well suggested in the majestic repose of this colossal statue. Of all the wonderful works of this curious people, this is the most remarkable. To get an idea of its comparative size, we climbed to the front of the image, and stood in the palms of the hands. From this station we could see the bay four miles away.

Health and Education

IGNORANCE with health may be useful, may be happy; but a finished education with a fell disease eating out the life can be neither, and must early go down to the grave a blighted bud, a priceless jewel shivered in the polishing. But health and high development never need be.

A Cheerful Home.

By Friends' Intelligencer

A single bitter word may disquiet an entire family for a whole day. One surly glance casts a gloom over the household; while a smile, like a gleam of sunshine, may light up the darkest and weariest hours. Like unexpected flowers which spring up along our path, full of freshness, fragrance, and beauty, so do kind words and gentle acts, and sweet dispositions make glad the home where peace and blessings dwell. No matter how humble the abode, if it be thus garnished with grace, and sweetened with kindness and smiles, the heart will turn longingly toward it from all the tumults of the world; and a home, if it be ever so humble, will be the dearest spot beneath the circuit of the sun.

And the influences of home perpetuate themselves. The gentle grace of the mother lives in the daughters long after her head is pillowed in the dust of death; and the fatherly kindness finds an echo in the nobility and courtesy of sons who come to wear his mantle and fill his place; while on the other hand, from an unhappy, misgoverned and disordered home, go forth persons who shall make other homes miserable, and perpetuate the sourness and sadness, the contentions, and strifes, and railings, which have made their own early lives so wretched and distorted.

Toward the cheerful home the children gather "as clouds and as doves to their windows," while from the home which is the abode of discontent, and strife, and trouble, they fly forth as vultures to rend their prey. The class of men that disturb, and disorder, and distress the world are not those born and nurtured amid the hallowed influence of Christian homes; but rather those whose early life has been a scene of trouble and vexation, who have started wrong in the pilgrimage, and whose course is one of disaster to themselves, and trouble to those around them.—Friends' Intelligencer.

The Signs of the Times

By Editor

OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, SEPT. 16, 1875.

Eastern Camp-Meetings.

MICHIGAN, Flint,........... Sept. 16-21, 1875. OHIO, Bowling Green,... Sept. 30-Oct. 5, “ INDIANA, Bunker Hill,....... Oct. 7-12, “

Camp-Meeting Mail.

By Editor

LETTERS for those attending Fairfax Camp-meeting should be addressed, San Rafael, Marin Co., (Camp-ground).

Conference Funds.

By John Norton Loughborough

We shall expect each church to be ready to square the S. B. and missionary accounts at the Conference. To this end let each individual see that their dues, under either head, are immediately paid to their respective churches.

J. N. L.

Funds.

By Editor

We trust all who pledged to the Publishing Fund and the Tent Fund, are making calculations to meet their pledges at camp-meeting. We have some heavy payments to make immediately after camp-meeting, and we need the means to meet these payments.

Campers, Read This!

By Editor

LET it be understood by all coming to the camp-meeting that the Oakland Ferry-boats have recently moved their landing place in San Francisco from near Broadway wharf to the foot of Market St., and the San Quentin boats for Camp-ground leave at the same wharf near the landing place of Oakland boats.

See time table of trains for the Camp-ground, in this paper.

This Week's Paper

By Editor

Is the first printed on our new press. The car load of machinery which was mentioned as shipped from New York, several weeks ago, arrived in good condition, and the Cottrell & Babcock Cylinder Press and New York Safety Engine, are running. The necessary extra labor attendant upon the starting of the new machinery, with some unexpected hinderances, will, we hope, be considered sufficient reason for the SIGNS being one day late again this week.

Concluded.

By Editor

In this number is concluded Eld. Waggoner's series of important articles on the Law. To those who have read them carefully we need not speak of their merit, for they must appreciate the thorough manner in which the subject has been treated. Those who have not read them all, should preserve for reference those numbers of the paper in which they are found, and as soon as possible, give the subject careful study.

Come to the Camp-Meeting.

By John Norton Loughborough

EARNEST efforts will be made on the part of the Committee to have all in readiness for the Camp-meeting in good season, if the churches, on their part, comply with requests published from time to time in the SIGNS relative to the meeting. Bro. and Sister White are to be at this meeting to aid by their testimony and deep experience in the work. This meeting will be a rare opportunity to get good in the Lord's work. We hope none of our people will excuse themselves from coming.

There will be an excellent opportunity for your friends to learn the truth at the camp-meeting. Bring on all your friends you can induce to come. Plead earnestly with the Lord to prepare all our hearts for this great annual gathering of his people, and to work in power for both saints and sinners. Come yourselves to work for God. Come in the name of the Lord. Come.

J. N. L.

California Camp-Meeting.

THE California Camp-meeting will be held at Fairfax station, Marin Co., from Sept. 23, at 9 A. M., to Sept. 30, 6 A. M. Bro. and sister White are expected to attend. We hope to see all our brethren and sisters in the State at this meeting, and as many of your friends as you can induce to come. Opportunity for pitching tents, or space for rooms in the building, will be granted to any interested parties who wish to enjoy the meeting. Food for man and beast will be furnished upon the ground at reasonable prices. All coming should provide themselves with bedding unless they have made special arrangements with some tent company to provide them beds. We can accommodate men who bring blankets and have no tent, in our large tent.

It is desired by the committee that, as far as consistent, tents, and cloth for rooms in the building, be shipped to the camp-ground, Sept. 15. No tents should arrive later than the morning of Sept. 22. All our tents should be up, and our campers be upon the grounds by Sept. 22, so that the opening of the meeting, on the morning of the 23d, shall not be disturbed by erecting and preparing tents.

• The fare for the round trip, from San Francisco to Fairfax and return, from Sept. 22 to Oct. 1 inclusive, is $1.00. In buying your tickets to Fairfax, at S. F., state that you are going to the camp-meeting, and you will get your ticket for Fairfax, and a return ticket to San Francisco for the $1.00. Your return ticket is good until Oct. 1, the day after the meeting closes. Particulars about the time of trains from S. F., and the place of taking trains, will be given hereafter.

G. D. HAGER, D. B. RICKEY, WM. HARMON. } Camp-Meeting Com.

Quarterly Meeting of Dist. No. 7.

The fourth quarterly meeting of district No. 7, was held with the Oakland church, Sept. 12, 1875. The director of the district, Bro. D. B. Rickey, in the chair. Meeting opened with prayer by the director.

Minutes of last meeting read and accepted.

The report of the workings of the society for the past quarter is as follows : Number of families visited, 58 ; number of letters written, 24 ; money received for memberships, $5.00 ; by donations, $58.50 ; from book sales, $1.25 ; total, $64.75. New subscribers for Signs, 6. Distribution of reading matter : Signs, 216 ; Review, 57 ; Instructor, 90 ; Reformer, 2 ; tracts and pamphlets loaned, 10,031 pages, value, $12.54 ; tracts and pamphlets given away, pages, 19,794, value, $24.75.

At the last quarterly meeting, this district pledged $133.50 to be raised before camp-meeting ; this amount to be placed to their credit by the State Society. $132.50 of this is already paid, leaving but one dollar now due.

D. B. RICKEY, Director.

EMMA L. WHITE, Secretary.

A Curious Literary Production.

[THE following is one of the most remarkable compositions ever written. It evinces an ingenuity peculiarly its own. The initial letters spell, "My boast is in the glorious Cross of Christ." The words in italic, when read on the left hand side from top to bottom, and on the right hand side from bottom to top, form the Lord's prayer complete:—]

Make known the gospel truth, our Father, King; Yield up thy grace, dear Father from above; Bless us with hearts which feelingly can sing; "Our light thou art forever, God of love." Assuage our grief in love for Christ, we pray, Since the Prince of Heaven and Glory died, Took all sins and hallowed the display, Infinite being, first man, and then was crucified. Stupendous God ! thy grace and power make known ; In Jesus' name let all the world rejoice, Now labor in thy heavenly kingdom own— That blessed kingdom, for thy saints the choice. How vile to come to thee is all our cry, Enemies to thyself and all that's thine, Graceless our will, we live for vanity; Loathing the very being, evil in design— O God ! thy will be done from earth to Heaven; Reclining on the gospel, let us live In earth, and from sin delivered and forgiven. Oh ! as thyself but teach us to forgive; Unless its power temptation doth destroy, Sure is our fall into the depths of woe. Carnal in mind, we have not a glimpse of joy. Raised against Heaven, in us no hope we know. Oh, give us grace, and lead us on the way, Shine on us with thy love and give us peace. Self, and this sin that rises against us, slay. Oh, grant each day our trespasses may cease; Forgive our evil deeds that oft we do, Convince us daily of them to our shame. Help us with heavenly bread;* forgive us, too*, Recurrent lusts, and we'll adore thy name. In thy forgiveness as saints shall rise, Since for us and our trespasses so high, Thy Son, our Saviour, died our Sacrifice.

—Sel.

State Missionary Meeting.

By J. N. Loughborough

THE next yearly gathering of the California State T. and M. Society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Fairfax, Sept. 23 to 30, at such time as may be announced by the President of the society after the opening of the camp-meeting.

All who have paid one dollar into our State missionary funds for membership, are permanent members of the society, and are entitled to vote in all the meetings of the society. Those who have not yet become members of the society, will do well to come prepared to pay their $1.00 and become members.

We request the directors, district secretaries, business agents, and librarians of our churches, to bring all their account and record books of the society to the meeting.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.

LUCIE BUSH, Sec.

California Conference.

The next yearly session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Fairfax, Sept. 23–30, at such time as may be announced by the President after the opening of the camp-meeting.

We hope to see a full representation, by delegates from every company of Sabbath-keepers in the State. Each church of twenty members or less is entitled to one delegate, and to one additional delegate for every additional fifteen members over the first twenty. Each company which has organized Systematic Benevolence, and has a leader appointed, is entitled to delegates, and should choose them according to their respective numbers.

Churches that have completed their organization since the last conference was held should come prepared to unite with the conference.

The secretary of the conference will furnish to each church blanks for delegates, credentials, and reports of standing and finances. Let all church books and S. B. books be brought to the conference.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, } Cal. JOHN JUDSON, } Conf. J. W. BOND. } Com.

English Bibles.

We will send any of the following English Reference Bibles, by mail, post-paid, at their respective prices:

(1) Min. Ref. after verse, mor., $3.00 (2) Nonp'l, Marg. Ref., " " 2.50 (3) Pearl, " " Gilt, 2.00 (4) Diamond, " " circuit, 2.00 (5) " " " Brass Rim'd 1.50 (6) " " " Plain, 1.25

All letters or business for the SIGNS should be addressed "SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal."

Appointments.

OAKLAND.—Regular services are conducted by the Seventh-day Adventists in their hall, corner of Twelfth and Broadway, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11:30 A. M., and each Sunday evening.

SAN FRANCISCO.—Seventh-day Adventist services each Sabbath (Saturday) at the A. P. A. Hall, Mission street near Third, at 11 A. M., and every Sunday evening.

The next quarterly meeting of the Seventh-day Adventists of the Walla Walla Valley, will be held at the City of Walla Walla, on Sabbath and Sunday, Oct. 16 and 17. All our friends are especially invited to be present. First meeting on Friday evening at the beginning of the Sabbath.

I. D. VAN HORN.

Business Department.

By Editor

"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully," (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.

Received for the Signs.

$2.00 EACH. John Ruth 2-45, Mrs Wm Severance 2-1, C C Scott 2-1, M J McCarthy 2-35.

MISCELLANEOUS. Thomas Wyman $1.50 2-42, Frederick Metzgar 50c 2-9, Henry Fern 50c 2-9, Mrs S M Sommer 50c 2-9, D S Himstreet $2.40 2-26, C B Mead 05c, D M Burgon 05c, Geo Shular 05c.

California Publishing Fund.

A Papworth $20, J W Conkrite $5, D B Rickey $25, Jane Rowland $25, Henry Campion $20.

California Tent Fund.

Andrew Brossen $11.50.

Cal. T. and M. Society.

Received from District No. 7, $63.50.

Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, etc., etc.

By Editor

For Sale at this Office.

👉 OUR BOOK LIST.—Any persons on the Pacific Coast wishing any of the publications named in our book list can obtain them by mail or express by writing to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, California, enclosing the published price of the same. When sent by mail, books will be post paid; when by express, at the expense of the one ordering the books; but in this case a liberal discount will be made when ten dollars worth or more are paid for with any one order.

PUBLICATIONS.

By Editor

Prices in Coin.

Cruden's Complete Concordance. In this any passage in the Scriptures can readily be found. $1.50 per copy, post. paid.

Bible Dictionary of Bible names, customs and countries, and maps of Bible lands. $1.50 per copy, post. paid.

The History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, by J. N. Andrews. 528 pp. $1.25.

Thoughts on Daniel. By U. Smith. $1.00.

Condensed paper edition, 35 cts.

Thoughts on the Revelation. By U. Smith. $1.00.

Life of Wm. Miller, with likeness. $1.00.

The Nature and Destiny of Man. By U. Smith. 384 pp. $1.00. Paper, 40 cts.

The Constitutional Amendment: or The Sunday, the Sabbath, The Change, and The Restitution. A discussion between W. H. Littlejohn and the Editor of the "Christian Statesman." Bound, $1.00. Paper, 40 cts. First part, 10 cts.

The Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. I. By Ellen G. White; 416 pp. $1.00.

Autobiography of Eld. Jos. Bates. 318 pp. $1.

Hygienic Family Physician. $1.00.

The Game of Life (illustrated). Satan playing with man for his soul. In board, 50 cts.; in paper, 30 cts.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs for Camp Meetings and other Religious Gatherings. Compiled by Elder James White. 196 pp. Bound 50 cts. Paper 25.

The United States in Prophecy. By U. Smith. Bound, 40 cts. Paper, 20 cts.

The Advent Keepsake. Muslin, 25 cts. Gilt, 40 cts.

Sermons on the Sabbath and Law, embracing an outline of the Biblical and Secular History of the Sabbath for 6,000 years. By J. N. Andrews, 25 cts.

Facts for the Times, revised and enlarged, 25c.

History of the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul. By D. M. Canright, 25 cts.

The State of the Dead. By U. Smith. 224 pp. 25 cts.

Our Faith and Hope. Sermons on the Millennium, Second Advent, the Kingdom, the Judgment, the Time, the Sanctuary and Saving Faith. 20 cts

Refutation of the Age to Come. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.

The Atonement. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.

The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.

The Bible from Heaven; a dissertation. 20 cts.

Miraculous Powers. Evidences, Scriptural and historical of the perpetuity of Spiritual Gifts. 20c.

The Complete Testimony of the Fathers concerning the Sabbath and First Day. By J. N. Andrews. 15 cts.

The Ministration of Angels: and the Origin, History, and Destiny of Satan. By D. M. Canright. 20 cts.

The Three Messages of Rev. 14, and the Two-Horned Beast. By J. N. Andrews. 15 cts.

The Resurrection of the Unjust; a Vindication of the Doctrine. By J. H. Waggoner. 15 cts.

Redemption, or the Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness (Life of Christ, No. 2). By Mrs E. G. White. 15 cts.

The Saint's Inheritance, or the Earth made New. By J. N. Loughborough. 10 cts.

The Sanctuary and Twenty-three Hundred Days. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

Sunday Seventh-day. A Refutation of Mede, Jennings, Akers and Fuller. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts

The Truth Found; The Sabbath. By J. H. Waggoner. 10 cts.

Brown's Review of Gilfillan on the Sabbath. 10 cts.

Vindication of the True Sabbath. Morton 10 cts.

The Date of the Seventy Weeks of Dan. 9, established. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

The Seven Trumpets of Rev. 8 and 9. 10 cts.

Matthew Twenty-four. By James White. 10c.

Position and Work of the True People of God under the Third Angel's Message. Littlejohn. 10 cts.

The Hope of the Gospel: What it is, and when it will be consummated. By J. N. Loughborough, 80 pp. 10 cts.

An Appeal to the Baptists, from the Seventh-day Baptists, for the restoration of the Bible Sabbath 10 cts.

Four-cent Tracts: The Second Advent.—The Seventh Part of Time—Celestial Railroad—Samuel and the Witch of Endor—The Ten Commandments not Abolished—Address to the Baptists—The Present Truth—The Sufferings of Christ.

Three-cent Tracts: Much in Little—The Lost Time Question—Spiritualism a Satanic Delusion—Infidel Cavils Considered—The End of the Wicked—Scripture References—Who Changed the Sabbath?

Two-cent Tracts: Definite Seventh Day—Seven Reasons for Sunday-Keeping Examined—Sabbath by Elihu—The Rich Man and Lazarus—Argument on Sabbaton—The Millennium—Departing and Being with Christ—Fundamental Principles of S. D. Adventists.

One-cent Tracts: Appeal on Immortality—Thoughts for the Candid—Sign of the Day of God—The Two Laws—The Perfection of the Ten Commandments—Coming of the Lord—Without Excuse—Which Day, and God's Answers.

* Address, Signs of the Times. OAKLAND, CAL

Camp-Meeting Time Table.

Week Days.—Leave San Francisco, via. San Quentin, foot of Market St., 9:15 A. M., 1:30 P. M., 4:45 P. M.

Returning leave Fairfax 10:28 A. M., 2:45 P. M.

Sundays.—Leave San Francisco, via. Sauceleto to Ferry foot, of Davis St., 8 A. M., and via. San Quentin Ferry, foot of Market St., 9:30 A. M., 12. M.

Returning leave Fairfax via. San Quentin 9:45 A. M., 4:15 P. M.

Via. Sauceleto, 4.25 P. M.