Earlier text: Reflections on a Colorado SunsetPACIFIC COAST EDITION
By Editor
ALL who have taken this paper unite in pronouncing it the best paper for children and youth ever published. But the time has come when the growing Sabbath-school interests demand that it should be issued weekly. The following explanation appears in the December number of the Instructor :— "THE INSTRUCTOR WEEKLY.
"To meet the wishes of very many of our readers, we have decided to print the Instructor once a week. It will have four pages instead of eight, as at present; but coming four times in a month, it will contain twice as much reading during the year as the Monthly does.
"We shall have a new, ornamental heading for the next number, and shall use larger type. The Weekly will contain the same kind of instructive and interesting articles that have made the Monthly a favorite; and in addition there will be a Sabbath-school Department, with lessons for each Sabbath, and hints how to study, how to recite, and how to make a good Sabbath-school. The Children's Corner will be enlarged and frequently illustrated.
"The price of the Weekly Instructor will be 75 cents a year. The first number will be printed before Jan. 1, 1879. Subscribe at once, so that you can get the first number.
"The monthly Instructor will be continued its present size, and at the old price, for those who prefer it.
"W. C. WHITE." A letter recently received from the publishers of the Instructor, offers to furnish us with a Pacific Coast Edition if we will take from 1,500 to 2,000 copies. The Sabbath-schools of California, Washington Territory, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado need this number every week. As many copies should be taken in each school as there are members of the school, both old and young. The lessons which we are promised in the weekly Instructor are worth more than is asked for the paper. To do the work properly there must be a Pacific coast agency where all subscriptions for this coast should be received. This will be at the SIGNS OF THE TIMES Office.
The price of the weekly Instructor is placed as follows :—
Single copy per year..................75cts.
10 copies to one address, per copy, 60cts.
25 or more copies to one address....50cts.
The Oakland Sabbath-school numbers about one hundred members, and has already ordered 100 copies It is hoped that every school on the Pacific coast will take hold of this work with the same spirit.
To make the matter easier we propose to allow the schools to pay for the clubs taken by them in quarterly payments. Thus, the Oakland school takes 100 copies for which it agrees to pay $50.00 in four payments of $12.50 every quarter. This allows our school to take double the number that they otherwise could. Let us hear from all the schools on the coast immediately, as it is but a short time before the first number will be issued. THE following inducements taken from the December number of the Instructor, are offered to individual workers. There will be two editions of the Instructor for 1879 :—- The monthly, 8 pages, the same as it is now. Price, 50 cents.
- The weekly, 4 pages. Price, 75 cents.
The Child's Poems will be sent as a premium to each new subscriber for either edition. Those who now take the monthly and change to the weekly will not be considered new subscribers.
We advise our canvassers first to offer the weekly edition. If you will send us eight new subscribers for the Instructor, monthly or weekly, or both, we will send you your choice of one of the three volumes of Golden Grains: Vol. 1, The Hard Way; Vol. 2, The School-Boy's Dinner; Vol. 3, Grumbling Tommy.
For twelve new subscribers, your choice of Vol. 1, 2 or 3, of Sabbath Readings.
For twenty new subscribers, your choice of The Life of Captain Joseph Bates, or our new picture book, a beautifully illustrated book of pictures and stories for children.
For forty new subscribers, your choice between the "Bird's-Eye View of Palestine," a beautiful chart of the Holy Land, price $2.50, and a pearl Oxford Teacher's Bible, with index, concordance, and maps, price $2.25.
For fifty new subscribers, your choice of Nonpareil Oxford Teacher's Bible, with index, concordance, and maps, price $3.50, or the three books, Climbing the Mountain, Old Red House, and Story of a Pocket Bible. Send your orders to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. We hope no time will be lost, as we wish to commence our Pacific Coast edition with the 1st of January, 1879.
Superintendents, call the attention of your schools to this matter at your first opportunity. Do not wait to raise all the money, but report what you have done as soon as possible to this office.
J. E. WHITE. WE have received a report from Bro. Gillett of the Vacaville meeting too late for this paper. But we wish to mention that he took the names of sixty-nine subscribers for the SIGNS. How many other localities will do as well? Clubs to Nebraska.
By Editor
ALL orders for clubs of the Signs should come through the State secretary unless accompanied by the money for a whole year. It is next to an impossibility for us to keep track of the installment clubs at this office, while it is comparatively easy to do so by the tract and missionary societies. So in future please send orders and payments for clubs to your State secretary Mrs. Anna E. Shepherd, Nebraska City, Otoe county, Neb., who will see that they are forwarded promptly to the Office. Brother Lewis Martin writes from Bennington, N. H.,— "I am an old man and I love the blessed cause of God. My poor heart is cheered from week to week by reading the good things in the Signs and Review. I bid you God speed. May God bless all the old veterans of the cause, and also those who have lately volunteered to serve the Lord Jesus, and to keep all God's commandments. Be of good cheer; deliverance will soon come. My poor heart believes it. And may we all hear it said to us, Well done." Insurrection in Kentucky.
There is a worse state of things in Breathitt county, Ky., than there was in any county during the war. Anarchy and mob-law prevails. How many murders have been committed is not known, as there is no travel through the county. A reconnoitering party, to ascertain the true state of affairs, had to take a horseback ride of one hundred and fifty miles in a roundabout way, over dangerous paths in the hills. They say that previous reports, bad enough, were not equal to the facts. The law of the State does not allow the governor to interfere in case of insurrection without official notice, or request from the county judge. But the judge has been shot, and there are no officials having authority to act. It is thought the governor will act according to the necessities of the case. A correspondent says: "Every body is armed, with the probability of a collision any moment. Matters are worse even than during the war, when bushwhackers and home guards filled the hearts of the strongest with terror and dismay." THERE are a great many who are very correct in deportment when conditions are favorable, and then take to themselves credit for omitting the sins which it was not convenient or practicable to commit. It has been said that a thief considers himself honest when he has no opportunity to steal. The world is full of that grade of virtue. The Sword and Shield philosophises upon it in this manner:— Our morality is too apt to be governed by our opportunities. It is never right to take what we can't get hold of, and under such circumstances, we see our duty very plainly. But when things are within reach, the ordinary conscience takes a quiet dose of morphine, and, after that does not hold itself responsible for what happens. Illustration: "Do you see any grapes, Bob?" "Yes; lots of grapes, and ripe ones, too, but there's dogs." "Big dogs?" "Yes; awful big." "Then Bob, come away; those grapes don't belong to us."
Knowledge and Holy Living
The more and better thou knowest, the more heavy will be thy judgment, unless thy life be also more holy. Elder J. H. Waggoner will speak in the Seventh-day Adventist church at San Francisco, Sabbath, December 14, and in Oakland, Sunday evening December 15. Brother J. E. White will meet with the church at Petaluma Sabbath, December 14. Brother E. R. Gillett will meet with the church at Sacramento, Sabbath, December 14. Oakland—Services at the Seventh-day Adventist church, 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 9:15 o'clock Sabbath morning. San Francisco—Services at the Seventh-day Adventist church, on Laguna street, between Tyler and McAllister, every Sabbath (Saturday), at 11 A.M., and Sunday 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 railroad cross Laguna street near the church. Health Publications.
By Editor
The Uses of Water in Health and Disease. Bound, 160 pp., 50c. Paper covers, pp. 136, 25c. The Household Manual. Brief, plain directions for treatment of common sicknesses, etc. Bound, 176 pp. 75c. Plain Facts about Sexual Life. (The Boston Journal, and many other papers, highly recommend this work.) Bound, tinted paper, 360 pp., $1.50. Flexible covers, 260 pp., 75c. The Physical, Moral, and Social Effects of Alcoholic Poison as a Beverage and a Medicine. Paper, 128 pp., 25c. Healthful Cookery. Indispensable to every household. 128 pp., 25c. Proper Diet for Man. Paper, 48 pp., 15c. Evils of Fashionable Dress, and How to Dress Healthfully. 40 pp., 10c. Tracts. Dyspepsia, its Cause and Cure. 32 pp., 4c. Healthful Clothing. 32 pp., 4c. Startling Facts about Tobacco. 32 pp., 4c. Tea and Coffee. 32 pp., 4c. Wine and the Bible, (showing that the Bible affords no support to the use of intoxicating beverages). 24 pp., 3c. Principles of Health Reform. 16 pp., 2c. Twenty-five Arguments for Tobacco-using Answered. 24 pp., 3c. Pork, (with an engraving of the terrible trichina worm). 16 pp., 2c. The Drunkard's Arguments Answered. 16 pp., 2c. Alcoholic Medication. 16 pp., 2c. Moral and Social Effects of Alcohol. 8 pp., 1c. Causes and Cure of Intemperance. 8 pp., 1c. Alcohol; What is it? 4 pp., 1/2c. Alcoholic Poison. 4 pp., 1/2c. True Temperance. 4 pp., 1/2c. The whole series of Tracts put up in a neat package, 30c. Discount made to Tract and Temperance societies. Address— Signs of the Times. Oakland, Cal. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
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The Arctic World......................$6.50 The Mediterranean.....................6.00 Nature, or the Poetry of Earth and Sea...6.00 The Bird World........................5.00 The Insect “.........................5.00 The Sea...............................5.00 The Bird..............................5.00 Mysteries of the Ocean................5.00 The Mountain..........................5.00 Babylon and Nineveh...................5.00 Those Holy Fields.....................4.00 English Pictures......................4.00 Spanish “.............................4.00 Italian “.............................4.00 American “............................4.00 Swiss “...............................4.00 Great Shipwrecks......................2.50 Animal Life Throughout the Globe......2.50 Josephus..............................2.00 Golden Springs........................2.00 Beautiful Birds.......................2.00 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress...........2.00 “ “ “ ...............................1.00 “ “ “ ...............................75 Bible Picture Book....................1.75 Indian Mirror.........................1.75 Bible Pictures........................1.50 Picture Book of Animals...............1.50 Memorials of Early Genius.............1.50 Treasures of the Deep.................1.50 Earth and Its Treasures...............1.50 Wonders of the Underground World......1.50 The Catacombs of Rome.................1.50 Wonders of the Physical World.........1.50 Self-taught Men.......................1.50 The Vivians of Woodiford..............1.50 Stories of Animal Sagacity............1.50 Stories of Bird Life..................1.50 Alpine Adventures.....................1.50 Home Life in Ancient Palestine........1.50 Sea Birds.............................1.25 With the Birds........................1.25 Scenes With Hunters and Trappers......1.25 The Ocean and Its Wonders.............1.25 Natural History of the Bible..........1.25 Sea Birds and Story of their Lives....1.25 Aloe's Picture Story Book.............1.20 The Children's Garland................1.20 The Daisy Chain.......................1.20 The Children's Wreath.................1.20 The Children's Posey..................1.20 Natural History Scrap Book............1.00 Half Hours Among the Animals..........1.00 Goat Land.............................1.00 Success in Life.......................1.00 Youthful Diligence....................1.00 Seed Time and Harvest.................1.00 Self-taught Men.......................1.00 The Black Prince......................1.00 Mark Raffles in Japan.................1.00 The Sea and the Sea Shore.............1.00 Birds of Gay Plumage..................75 With the Birds........................75 Perils Among the Heathen..............75 The Boy Makes the Man.................75 The Birds We See......................75 Things in the Forest..................75 Bible Pictures and What They Tell Us..75 Stories From Jewish History...........75 Story of Audubon......................50 “ Cyrus Field.........................50 “ Palissy, the Potter.................50 “ Scoresby, the Arctic Navigator......50 “ John Howard, the Philanthropist....50 “ John Smeaton........................50 “ Sir Humphrey Davy...................50 “ Benvenuto Cellini...................50 Homes of the Birds....................50 A liberal reduction from the above prices to Sabbath-schools and the Trade.